Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Elvis Mitchell

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Open City Teju Cole
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Weapons Zach Cregger
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
XXX Danny Brown
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt

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