Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Tasha Robinson: The Next Picture Show: Top Ten Films of 2025
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Lists

The Top 10 Podcasts of 2018: Time

The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019: Wired UK
The 21 Best Podcasts of 2018: Esquire

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top Ten Films of 2025 Tasha Robinson · The Next Picture Show
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Long Story Short
XXX Danny Brown
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker

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