Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Film Comment: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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1. 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the Decade: A.A. Dowd

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Long Story Short
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
XXX Danny Brown
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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