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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Betsy West and Julie Cohen

My Name Is Pauli Murray
1. Top 50 Films of 2021: Robert Daniels
RBG

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky
False Lankum Lankum
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
House of Huawei Eva Dou
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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