Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Lanterns on the Lake

Versions Of Us
1. Top 100 Albums of 2023: Under the Radar
Beings
1. 100 Favourite Albums of 2015: Drowned in Sound
Gracious Tide, Take Me Home

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
hexed! aya
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Open City Teju Cole
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
XXX Danny Brown
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Flight Risk Karley Scott Collins
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Weapons Zach Cregger

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