Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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1. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
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- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade
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1. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Q

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

Trending Works

The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
False Lankum Lankum
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
House of Huawei Eva Dou
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

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