Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Gold Star Baby
1. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
I've Loved You for So Long
1. 108 Favorite Albums Of 2023: Hanif Abdurraqib
When My Heart Felt Volcanic
1. Best Albums of 2018: Pretty Much Amazing

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

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

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