Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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1. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Far Out
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- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Resurrection Bi Gan
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Zbig Edward Luce
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Motherland Julia Ioffe
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus

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