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
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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- 10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022: Connie Pan: Book Riot
- Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Adolescence
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
U R HERE Honesty
Big Time Angel Olsen
Suspicious Minds
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
XXX Danny Brown
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Too Much
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones

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