Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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- 50 Most Impressive Albums of 2014: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Dìdi Sean Wang
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Getting Killed Geese
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Tár Todd Field
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
XXX Danny Brown
Mister Universo Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Eddington Ari Aster

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