Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
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Top Ten Albums of 2018: Clémence Polès Farhang

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Works

False Lankum Lankum
House of Huawei Eva Dou
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba

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