Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The Echo of Astro Boy's Footsteps

by Masanori Tominaga

Lists

Top 5 Films of 2012: Jasper Sharp: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
XXX Danny Brown
Passages Ira Sachs
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Galleons Rick Barot
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Lowdown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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