Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Glimmer of God

by Jean Dawson

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The Best Albums of 2024: Flood

Top 50 Albums of 2024: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
20 Best Albums of 2024: Glide

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Resurrection Bi Gan
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Motherland Julia Ioffe
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
King of Kings Scott Anderson
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Zbig Edward Luce

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