Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Daily Beast
10 Best Movies of 2024 Daily Beast
The 10 Best Movies of 2023 Daily Beast
Best Movies of 2022 Daily Beast
The Best Movies of 2021 Esquire
The Best Movies of 2020 Esquire
The Best Movies of 2019 Esquire
25 Best Movies of 2018 Esquire
Best Movies of 2017 Esquire
The 25 Best Movies of 2016 Esquire
The Best Films of 2015 A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2014 A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club
Top 20 Films of 2012 Slant
Top 10 Films of 2011 Slant

Trending Lists

The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Francesca David Murray Quartet
The Sunshine Place
Oracle Cate Marvin
Liars Sarah Manguso
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sly Thom Zimny
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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