Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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by Sjohnna McCray

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12 Best Poetry Collections of 2016: E. Ce Miller: Bustle

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The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top Tens 2025 Fighting in the War Room
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Liars Sarah Manguso
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Oracle Cate Marvin
Sly Thom Zimny

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