Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Angela Flournoy

The Wilderness
The Turner House
1. 11 Best Books of 2015: Entertainment Weekly
- 2015 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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