Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Sweet East

by Sean Price Williams

Lists

The Best 2023 Movies: Eric Kohn
Best Films of 2023: In Review Online
The Top Forty-Five Films Of 2023: Glenn Kenny
Best Movies of 2023: Sean Fennessey

Top 50 Movies of 2023: Jessica Kiang

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
TV Shows of the Year 2025 New Statesman
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

hexed! aya
The Pitt
Getting Killed Geese
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Yeezus Kanye West
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Treats Sleigh Bells
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Gasp Seth Graham
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Middle Jesse Welles

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