Year-End Lists

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Next Picture Show: Our Top Films of 2025
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1. 10 Favorite Albums of 2011: Randall Roberts: Los Angeles Times
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Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Holy Motors Leos Carax
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
XXX Danny Brown

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