Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

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

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