Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Observer
10 Best Films of 2024 Observer
10 Best Films of 2023 Observer
Films of the Year 2022 Screen
Films of the Year 2021 Screen
Top 5 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard

Trending Works

Renaissance Beyoncé
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
Fatigue L'Rain
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Getting Killed Geese
-io Circuit Des Yeux
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Passages Ira Sachs
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Sun Cat Power

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