Year-End Lists

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Best Movies of 2025 AP: Jake Coyle

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Movies of 2025 AP: Lindsey Bahr

Nouvelle Vague - Richard Linklater

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Time: Stephanie Zacharek

The Best Movies of 2025 Vulture: John Waters

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

Best Movies of 2025 New York Times: Alissa Wilkinson

Best Movies of 2025 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

The Best Movies of 2025 Vulture: Alison Willmore

The Best Movies of 2025 Vulture: Bilge Ebiri

The 20 Best Movies of 2025 Rolling Stone: David Fear

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025 Them

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks

The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Best Films of 2025 Economist

Top Ten Films of 2025 Jordan Cronk

Direct Action - Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell

Best Films of 2024 Benoit Rouilly

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya - Malena Szlam

The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2024 Jordan Cronk

Babygirl - Halina Reijn

The Best 15 Films of 2024 For the Win: Cory Woodroof

Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross

Best Films of 2024 Reverse Shot

Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross

The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich

I Saw the TV Glow - Jane Schoenbrun

Favorite Movies of 2024 Sarah Welch-Larson

Hundreds of Beavers - Mike Cheslik

The Best Movies of 2024 Polygon: Matt Patches

Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross

The Best Movies of 2024 Polygon: Tasha Robinson

Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra

The Best Films of 2024 Cult MTL: Justine Smith

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