Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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My 25 Favorite New Podcasts of 2023: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Movies of 2023 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Idlewild Idlewild
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas

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