Year-End Lists

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Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound
Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano
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1. Independent: Martin Chilton: Best Books of 2025
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- The 20 Best Books of 2023: New Statesman
- Best Fiction of 2023: Goldsmiths Prize

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Bleeds Wednesday
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach

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