Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Kambuzia Partovi and Jafar Panahi

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Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
Andor
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami
The Illegals Shaun Walker
Forever, episode "Andre and Sarah"
Alpha Julia Ducournau
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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