Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Pete’s Dragon

by David Lowery

Lists

35 Best Movies of 2016: Richard Brody: New Yorker

20 Best Movies of 2016: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
Top Ten Films of 2016: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
XXX Danny Brown
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Antidote Karen Russell
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari

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