Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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25 Best Rock Albums of 2020: Ultimate Classic Rock

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

Trending Works

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

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