Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Ann Hornaday: Washington Post: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024: Annabel Gutterman: Time

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Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Paper Girl Beth Macy
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Adolescence
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Suspicious Minds
U R HERE Honesty
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim

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