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
Ann Hornaday: Washington Post: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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- 66 Best Films of 2015: IndieWire

Trending Lists

10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post

Trending Works

Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Adolescence
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
U R HERE Honesty
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
XXX Danny Brown
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Suspicious Minds
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates

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