Year-End Lists

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2024
Wesley Morris: Grantland: Top 30 Movies of 2014
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Slate: Movie Club: 2025

19 December 2025

Train Dreams - Clint Bentley

Movie Club: 2025, as published by Slate

Movie lists in other years: 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020

Also from Slate in 2025: Sam Adams · TV Shows · Music · Books

Summarizes these lists:

The Best Movies of 2025 Alison Willmore · New York · Vulture
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 20 Films of 2025 Bilge Ebiri · Slate · Movie Club
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Dana Stevens · Slate

Trending Lists

Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times

Trending Works

The Perfect Candidate Haifaa al-Mansour
Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Pattern Man Pattern Man
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Hater Jan Komasa
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Somewhere Boy
Hustle Jeremiah Zagar
America Dan Deacon
Manipulator Ty Segall
¡Que viva México! Luis Estrada

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