Year-End Lists

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Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound
Top 50 Albums of 2025: The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano
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The 10 Best TV Series of 2025: IndieWire

Best TV Shows of 2025: James Poniewozik: New York Times
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025: Slate
The Best TV Shows of 2025: Uproxx
The 20 Best TV Shows Of 2023: The Playlist

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Truly, Madly Stephen Galloway
Bleeds Wednesday
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 Chaeyoung
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Babygirl Halina Reijn
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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