Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2019: Complex

The Best TV of 2019: David Bianculli: NPR: Fresh Air

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sly Thom Zimny

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