Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Favorite Books of 2025: Barack Obama
The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire
Best Fiction of 2024: Laura Battle: Financial Times

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Magic, Alive! McKinley Dixon
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still Hot Mulligan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Getting Killed Geese
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
XXX Danny Brown
Flashlight Susan Choi
You're Weird Now Guerilla Toss
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman

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