Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Iain Reid

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
- Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
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 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Elsbeth
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
A Small Light
Monkey Man Dev Patel
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Beginners Mike Mills
XXX Danny Brown

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