Year-End Lists

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Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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1. 16 Favorite Books of 2016: Maria Popova

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies Of 2021 Uproxx

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
Oracle Cate Marvin
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

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