Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2023 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2022 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum
Best Films of 2019 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2018 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
13 Best Films of 2017 Artforum

Trending Lists

The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
XXX Danny Brown
Civil War Alex Garland
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Eddington Ari Aster
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Tár Todd Field
Elle Paul Verhoeven
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
Sticker NCT 127
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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