Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sam Weisberg: Village Voice: Best Films of 2016
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1. The Best Albums of 2021: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: NME
Empress
1. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
- Favourite Albums of 2018: gal-dem
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- Best Albums of 2016: gal-dem

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2016 Sam Weisberg · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Films of 2015 Denis Côté · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2014 Roger Koza · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2015 Robert Koehler · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Testing A$AP Rocky
Collapse Aphex Twin
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Pictures of Ghosts Kleber Mendonça Filho
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones
Grounded with Louis Theroux
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On Franny Choi
The English Riviera Metronomy
What We Spend
Port of Morrow The Shins
Bent Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan

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