Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Max Winkler

Lists

Favorite Films of 2011: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
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 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Alpha Julia Ducournau
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
False Lankum Lankum
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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