Year-End Lists

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Pee-wee as Himself
Spaceship Earth
- The Best Films of 2020: Economist
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
- The 25 Best Films of 2019: Glenn Kenny
- The Best Movies of 2019: Richard Brody: New Yorker
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1. Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014: Marya E. Gates

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Get Out Jordan Peele
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
A Man on the Inside
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada

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