Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of 2025
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Hope

A Tragedy

by Shalom Auslander

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2012: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Albums of 2025 Gorilla vs. Bear
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 23 Best TV Shows of 2023 Daily Beast
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Oracle Cate Marvin
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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