Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Favorite Films of 2023
Best Films of 2021 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2019 Seventh Row · Seventh Row Critics Survey
Best Black Films of the 2010s
The 10 Best Films of 2017
The 10 Best Films of 2016

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet

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