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

Trending Works

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

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