Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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1. 50 Best Albums of 2012: Gorilla vs. Bear
2. Top 100 Albums of 2012: Piccadilly Records

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Common Side Effects
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Sound of Metal Darius Marder
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Lowdown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna

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