Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Fighting in the War Room: Top Tens 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Favorite Films of 2019
Top Ten Films of 2018
Top Ten Films of 2017 Criterion · Daily
Top 13 Films of 2016 Fandor · Keyframe Daily
Top 17 Films of 2015 Fandor · Keyframe Daily

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Presence Steven Soderbergh
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Moneyball Bennett Miller
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara

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