Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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50 Best Films of 2017: Slant

Favorite Feature Films of 2017: Ryland Walker Knight

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

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

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