Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Apartments

In and Out of the Light
1. Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks
No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal
1. 75 Best Albums of 2015: Uncut

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 20 Best TV Shows of 2023 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Goal/Tender Meat/Tender Paul Cunningham
Top of the Lake Jane Campion and Garth Davis
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Drive & Cry Emily Nenni
Vice Principals
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Sticker NCT 127
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Alpha Julia Ducournau
XXX Danny Brown

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