Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression
- Favorite Films of 2011: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Films of 2020 James Quandt · Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025 Them
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Birdeater Jack Clark and Jim Weir
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Swirl Flora Hibberd
Yon Loader Yon Loader
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Lana Del Rey
The Girlfriends
Poog Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Still Life Kevin Morby
The Heart-Shaped Tin Bee Wilson
What of Our Nature Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
Why Q Needs U Danny Bate

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