Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2022: Sarah Larson: New Yorker
The Best Podcasts of 2022: New York: Vulture Podcast Survey

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022: Mara Davis: Paste
The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Economist
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
50 Best Albums of 2018 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

House of Huawei Eva Dou
Wicked Jon M. Chu
A Star Is Born Soundtrack Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
Now Jazz Now Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
Baby I'm the Wolf Ha Vay
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Special Lizzo
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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