Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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- The Best Poetry of 2020: Elisa Gabbert: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
House of Huawei Eva Dou
She Dies Tomorrow Amy Seimetz
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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