Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Weapons Zach Cregger
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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