Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2023
IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2012
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Favorite Films of 2017: Nicole Brenez: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Ten Best Films of 2025 RogerEbert.com
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Dean's List 2017 Robert Christgau
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
About Elly Asghar Farhadi
Bernie Richard Linklater
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
Because I Was a Painter Christophe Cognet
The Spectacular Now James Ponsoldt
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Kenji Mizoguchi
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
Two Shots Fired Martín Rejtman

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