Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Mojo
Sound Mirror
1. Top 40 Albums of 2014: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
2. Top 140 Albums of 2014: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Room for the Moon Kate NV
The Golden House Salman Rushdie
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
Away Okkervil River
Rock N Roll Consciousness Thurston Moore
The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera
Sugar Honey Iced Tea Latto
A Children's Bible Lydia Millet
XXX Danny Brown
Before We Vanish Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Half of Where You Live Gold Panda
The Revolutionists Jason Burke
That Was Something Dan Callahan

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