Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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by Jenny Boully

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Best Books of 2018: Entropy

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Sticker NCT 127
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Eddington Ari Aster
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Tár Todd Field
XXX Danny Brown
Civil War Alex Garland
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
Elle Paul Verhoeven

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