Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Gaspar Noé

Lists

Best Films of 2022: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2022: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Notable Films Of 2022: Glenn Kenny
Top 10 Films of 2020: Cole Duffy: Cinema Etc.

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
Best Albums of 2024 Jon Pareles · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Guardian
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Doga Juana Molina
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Not Here/Not Now Swans
In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio
Fleabag
Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller
Instant Life Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, Andrew Kim
Stranger Things
The Forgotten Space Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty

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