Year-End Lists

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson

Lists

51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge

The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024: A.S. Hamrah: n+1

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Alpha Julia Ducournau
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
XXX Danny Brown
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Forever, episode "Andre and Sarah"
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
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