Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
False Lankum Lankum
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Alpha Julia Ducournau
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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