Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best Movies of 2020 Joshua Rivera
The Best TV Shows of 2020 Joshua Rivera
20 Best TV Series of 2018 Noel Murray
15 Best Movies of 2017 Tasha Robinson
20 Best TV Shows of 2017 Noel Murray
15 Best Movies of 2016 Tasha Robinson

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Oracle Cate Marvin
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Liars Sarah Manguso

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