Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Night Comes On

by Jordana Spiro

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50 Best Movies of 2018: Film School Rejects

Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018: Valerie Ettenhofer: Film School Rejects

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
Staying In with Emily & Kumail
Arcane
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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