Year-End Lists

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Film Comment: Best Films of 2025
The Next Picture Show: Our Top Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Revelator
- Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic
I Told Bessie
1. 100 Favorite Albums of 2022: Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
XXX Danny Brown
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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