Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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- The Best Books of 2021: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2018 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Civil War Alex Garland
House of Huawei Eva Dou
XXX Danny Brown
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
In the Dark
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Dìdi Sean Wang
You Didn't See Nothin
Tár Todd Field
Eddington Ari Aster

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