Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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This Closeness

by Kit Zauhar

Lists

The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire

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

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Sunshine Place
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker

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