Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Amy Taubin

Lists

Best Films of 2023 Screen Slate
Best Films of 2022 Artforum
Best Films of 2021 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2019 Artforum
Best Films of 2018 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2017 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2016 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2015 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2014 Artforum
10 Best Films of 2013 Artforum
Top 10 Films of 2012 Artforum

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A Still Small Voice Luke Lorentzen
Vida
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Idlewild Idlewild
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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