Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Amir Naderi

Lists

Best Films of 2023: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
She Dies Tomorrow Amy Seimetz
The Ballad of Wallis Island James Griffiths
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky
Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
EUSA Yann Tiersen
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

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