Year-End Lists

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The Best Films of 2025: New Yorker: Richard Brody
The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025: New Yorker
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Let's Say for Instance
1. The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters
Long Live the Angels
1. 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016: Hanif Abdurraqib

Emeli Sande

Our Version of Events
1. Top 25 Albums of 2012: BBC: BBC Music
- 50 Best Albums of 2012: Q

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Babygirl Halina Reijn
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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