Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Ciro Guerra

Embrace of the Serpent
- Best Films of 2016: Mark Kermode: Observer

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Resurrection Bi Gan
Zbig Edward Luce
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo

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