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
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha

My Brother, My Land
- 10 Best Books of 2024: California Review of Books

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2018 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2014 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of the Decade (2010-2019) Far Out
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Room 25 Noname
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Lurker Alex Russell
How to Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
XXX Danny Brown
Boeckner! Boeckner
Sub-Lingual Tablet The Fall
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt

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