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
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

45 Best Books of 2017: Paste

Trending Lists

Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Iron Claw Sean Durkin
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Rakshak Bloodywood
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Slow West John Maclean
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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