Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best Movies of 2020 Joshua Rivera
The Best TV Shows of 2020 Joshua Rivera
20 Best TV Series of 2018 Noel Murray
15 Best Movies of 2017 Tasha Robinson
20 Best TV Shows of 2017 Noel Murray
15 Best Movies of 2016 Tasha Robinson

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Alpha Julia Ducournau
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
Results Andrew Bujalski
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Unstoppable Tony Scott
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
Neither Heaven Nor Earth Clément Cogitore

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