Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Next Picture Show: Our Top Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Lists

The 2020 Jim Ridley Film Poll
The 10 Best Films of 2020 Jason Shawhan
The 2019 Jim Ridley Film Poll
The 2018 Jim Ridley Film Poll
The 2017 Jim Ridley Memorial Film Poll

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
XXX Danny Brown
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Getting Killed Geese
Dying for Sex
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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