Year-End Lists

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Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Our Top 10 Films of 2021
Favorite Movies of 2020
Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020
The Best Films of the Decade
Top 15 Feature Films of 2019
Top 25 Books of 2019

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Movies of 2023 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Oracle Cate Marvin
Idlewild Idlewild

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