Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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The Forty-Five

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The 45 Best Albums of 2025
The Best Albums of 2024
The 45 Best Albums of 2023
The Best Albums of 2022
The 45 Best Albums of 2021
The 45 Best Albums of 2020

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Rakshak Bloodywood
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Yes! Nadav Lapid
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes

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