Year-End Lists

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Ten Best Films of 2020: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound Poll

Best Films of 2020: Steve Erickson: GCN
Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film Society of Lincoln Center

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Boom Town Sam Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Holy Motors Leos Carax
XXX Danny Brown
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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