Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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1. The 50 Best Movies of 2020: Paste
2. My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Mountainhead Jesse Armstrong
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Diamond Eyes Deftones
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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