Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Andrzej Zulawski

That Most Important Thing: Love
1. Favorite Films of 2017: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
Cosmos
Possession (1981)
1. 20 Favorite Films of 2012: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader

Trending Lists

Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Movies of 2018 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Tár Todd Field
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
In the Dark
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Civil War Alex Garland
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Dìdi Sean Wang
XXX Danny Brown
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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