Year-End Lists

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Exhibiting Forgiveness

by Titus Kaphar

Lists

The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Guardian
The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire

The 20 Best Films Of 2024: The Playlist
The Best Films Of 2024: HuffPost
The Best Movies Of 2024: Uproxx

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Best Albums of 2018 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

‘Til Madness Do Us Part Wang Bing
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel & Ethan Coen
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Tabu Miguel Gomes
Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
An Elephant Sitting Still Hu Bo
XXX Danny Brown
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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