Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Skepta

Ignorance Is Bliss
1. Albums of the Year 2019: Clash
Konnichiwa

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
False Lankum Lankum
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Looper Rian Johnson
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Her Spike Jonze

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