Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 30 Best TV Shows of 2021: Paste

The 19 Best TV Shows of 2021: Vogue
Best Television of 2021: Passerby

Trending Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

That Was Something Dan Callahan
Before We Vanish Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Room for the Moon Kate NV
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
XXX Danny Brown
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sugar Honey Iced Tea Latto
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
hexed! aya
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins

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