Year-End Lists

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

25 Favorite Movies of the 2010s Chicago Reader
Top 12 Films of 2019 Chicago Reader
Top Movies of 2018 Chicago Reader
Favorite Films of 2017 Chicago Reader
Favorite Films of 2015 Chicago Reader
30 Favorite Films of 2014 Chicago Reader
Top Ten Movies of 2013 Chicago Reader
20 Favorite Films of 2012 Chicago Reader
20 Best Films of 2011 Chicago Reader

Trending Lists

Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Top 10 Books of 2021 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place

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