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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt

Lists

Top Ten Films of 2012: Jonathan Marlow: Fandor: Keyframe

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 The Playlist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Nick Schager · Daily Beast
Fiction 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage

Trending Works

Close Your Eyes Blue Ranger
More Pulp
Black Metal Dean Blunt
Andor
Body Talk Robyn
Resurrection Bi Gan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
The Grey Album Kevin Young
Boarding House Reach Jack White
North Sun Ethan Rutherford
Chokepoints Edward Fishman

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