Year-End Lists

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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IGN: The Best Movie of 2025

19 December 2025

Sinners - Ryan Coogler

IGN: The Best Movie of 2025

Winner

Sinners

Ryan Coogler

Runners-up

KPop Demon Hunters

Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
Marty Supreme

Josh Safdie
Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro
One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson
Weapons

Zach Cregger

Honorable Mentions

Superman

James Gunn
Predator: Badlands

Dan Trachtenberg
28 Years Later

Danny Boyle

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
Open City Teju Cole
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Dead Don't Hurt Viggo Mortensen
Weapons Zach Cregger
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
XXX Danny Brown

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