Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Quietus: Albums of the Year 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Sleep of Reason

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100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Devotional The Lord † Petra Haden
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The French Press Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
Yr Dead Sam Sax
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Abandon Pharmakon
Eddington Ari Aster
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths

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