Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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- The Very Best Books of 2023: Constance Grady: Vox
- Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023: Vanity Fair

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10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Getting Killed Geese
Passages Ira Sachs
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Fatigue L'Rain
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
-io Circuit Des Yeux
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Sun Cat Power
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Renaissance Beyoncé
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall

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