Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Zootopia 2

by Jared Bush and Byron Howard

Lists

Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
Top Ten Films of 2025: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Passages Ira Sachs
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
-io Circuit Des Yeux
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
Sun Cat Power
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Leftovers Le Ren
Fatigue L'Rain
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Chokepoints Edward Fishman

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