Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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by Drew Hancock

Lists

Top Ten Films of 2025: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The Best Movies of 2025: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
The 25 Best Films of 2025: BBC: BBC Culture
The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Entertainment Weekly

Trending Lists

Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times
The Best Podcasts of 2025 Sarah Larson · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Take Shelter Jeff Nichols
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Wish Defense FACS
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Sam's Place Little Feat
Andor
Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring Smoulder
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Dead Pioneers Dead Pioneers
I Wish I Knew (2010) Jia Zhang-ke
Her Spike Jonze
I Love You Jennifer B Jockstrap
The Empire Bruno Dumont
Luck and Strange David Gilmour

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