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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Best Albums of 2025
Best Albums of 2023
Top 50 Albums of 2022
Top 20 Albums of 2021
Top 30 Albums of 2020
Top 20 Albums of 2019
Top 10 Albums of 2018
Top 10 Albums of 2017

Trending Lists

26 Best Films of 2011 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
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 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2011 Award The Booker Prize
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver

Trending Works

The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Moneyball Bennett Miller
Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Tiger’s Wife Téa Obreht
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Be the Cowboy Mitski
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Presence Steven Soderbergh
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics

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