Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Television of 2022: Passerby
Best of TV 2021: Inkoo Kang: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Hi Texas
American Crime Story
I Swear Kirk Jones
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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