Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

by Steve James

Lists

Best Films of 2017: Jake Coyle: AP

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
The Sunshine Place
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Liars Sarah Manguso
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker

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