Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Margaret Sullivan

Newsroom Confidential
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022: Washington Post
Ghosting the News
- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Alpha Julia Ducournau
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton

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