Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Adrian Martin: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2016
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Polygon: Movies: 2021

The 10 (or 11) Best Documentaries of 2021 Noel Murray · Polygon
The Best Movies of 2021 Polygon

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2016 Adrian Martin · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2014 Roger Koza · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2015 Robert Koehler · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2016 Sam Weisberg · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2015 Denis Côté · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Trending Works

Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
Testing A$AP Rocky
Pictures of Ghosts Kleber Mendonça Filho
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On Franny Choi
Grounded with Louis Theroux
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Islah Kevin Gates
Electric Light James Bay
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Collapse Aphex Twin
Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St Swamp Dogg
Bent Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen

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