Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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1. 30 Favorite Albums of 2011: Matt Jordan: You Ain’t No Picasso

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
hexed! aya
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith

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