Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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1. The Best Albums of 2021: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

House of Huawei Eva Dou
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
False Lankum Lankum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba

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