Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Karina Longworth: 16 Favorite Movies of 2014
NPR Music: Best Albums of 2025
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- 5 The Best Country Music Albums of 2024: Holler
- 63 The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone

Trending Lists

Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

I Saw the TV Glow Jane Schoenbrun
The Last Days of Budapest Adam LeBor
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s various artists
Communion Park Jiha
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art Shinichi Atobe
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Open Book Sessions Ronica & The Blazing Stars
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Cool Planet Guided by Voices

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