Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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1. Top 50 Albums Of 2024: Fire Note
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- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Here Bas Devos
XXX Danny Brown
Pacifiction Albert Serra
Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
Getting Killed Geese
Dìdi Sean Wang
In the Dark
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Boom Town Sam Anderson
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar

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