Year-End Lists

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The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound
The 20 Best Movies of 2025: Rolling Stone: David Fear
2025: Dylan Thomas Prize
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Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert

Never Gonna Snow Again
1. The Best Films of 2020: Ela Bittencourt: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
2. The 50 Best Films of 2021: Guardian

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone

Trending Works

John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Virtuoso Valee and Harry Fraud
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Bleeds Wednesday
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
At Certain Points We Touch Lauren John Joseph
Boom Town Sam Anderson
YU Rosie Lowe
Getting Killed Geese
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach

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