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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein

Final Destination Bloodlines
1. The Best Movies of 2025: John Waters: New York: Vulture
2. Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Rakshak Bloodywood
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This Is the Sonics The Sonics

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