Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Appears on two lists

#88 The Top 100 Albums of 2017: Crack Magazine
#93 Albums of the Year 2017: Clash

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2016 Emily St. James · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Best Films of 2021 Robert Koehler · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland

Trending Works

On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Said the Dead Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
Kitten Stacey Yu
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood

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