Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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1. The Best Albums of 2021: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
False Lankum Lankum
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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