Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Identifying Features
- Best Films of 2021: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
- The Best Movies of 2021: Polygon

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Twinless James Sweeney
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Till Chinonye Chukwu
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor

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