Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lighten Up

by Erin Rae

Appears on three lists

85 The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Rolling Stone

The 60 Best Albums of 2022: Josh Terry
20 Best Albums of 2022: Glide Honorable mention

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award

Trending Works

Le silence des troupeaux Philippe Brach
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time Steve Mason
Somebody Somewhere
Dirt Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
Men Without Women Haruki Murakami
Sleep Beneath the Willow Daniel Romano
Fire Island Jack Parlett
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Mascarade Gayance

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