Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Who by Fire

by Philippe Lesage

Lists

51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge
Top Ten Films of 2025: Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com
The Best Films of 2025: Justin Chang: New Yorker
Top 20 Films of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club

Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen
Best Films of 2025: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2014 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Heart of a Dog Laurie Anderson
Lurker Alex Russell
Transangelic Exodus Ezra Furman
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
XXX Danny Brown
Glory Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Room 25 Noname
Bangarang Skrillex
Alpha Julia Ducournau
How to Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair
Sub-Lingual Tablet The Fall
Suspicious Minds
Eels Being Dead

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