Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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1. The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Richards: Washington Post
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1. Top 10 Albums of 2022: Chris Richards: Washington Post

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2016 Seongyong Cho · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

King of Kings Scott Anderson
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto
I Miss You When I Blink Mary Laura Philpott
Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
Her Spike Jonze
Pig Michael Sarnoski
Box for Buddy, Box for Star This Is Lorelei
Dry Ground Burning Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
Fargo
Choke Enough Oklou
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney
Flesh David Szalay
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Not Tight Domi and JD Beck

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