Year-End Lists

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The Best Films of 2025 Scott Tobias
The Best Films of 2025 Keith Phipps
The Best Films of 2024 Scott Tobias
The Best Films of 2024 Keith Phipps
The Best Movies of 2023 Scott Tobias
The Best Movies of 2023 Keith Phipps
The Best Movies of 2022 Scott Tobias
The Best Movies of 2022 Keith Phipps
The Best Films of 2021 Keith Phipps
The Best Films of 2021 Scott Tobias

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
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 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
The Sunshine Place
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Liars Sarah Manguso
Oracle Cate Marvin
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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