Year-End Lists

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Michael Sicinski: Top 12 Films of 2014
Film Comment Poll: 20 Best Films of 2014
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Fatal Optimist

by Madi Diaz

Appears on five lists

#3 The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
#9 Top 10 Albums of 2025: Stephen Thompson: NPR: NPR Music
#9 Best Southern Albums of 2025: Bitter Southerner
#32 Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions

Top 10 Albums of 2025: Robin Hilton: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Weapons Zach Cregger
Channel Orange Frank Ocean
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
I Swear Kirk Jones
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
Roofman Derek Cianfrance
Human Acts Han Kang
XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
To Paradise Hanya Yanagihara

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