Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Top 40 Albums of 2025
Top 40 Albums of 2024
Top 40 Albums of 2023
Top 40 Albums of 2022
Top 40 Albums of 2021
Top 40 Albums of 2020
Top 40 Albums of 2019
Top 40 Albums of 2012

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Sicario Denis Villeneuve
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Eddington Ari Aster
American Fiction Cord Jefferson
Environments Rafiq Bhatia
Tár Todd Field
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Civil War Alex Garland
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami
Music for Living Spaces Green-House
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
XXX Danny Brown

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