Year-End Lists

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Noel Murray: The Dissolve: Top 15 Films of 2014
IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2014
IndieWire Poll: Best Films of 2011
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Owls, Omens, and Oracles

by Valerie June

Appears on two lists

30 The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Albumism
50 The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

Trending Lists

Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP

Trending Works

This Music May Contain Hope Raye
The Ruby Cord Richard Dawson
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Justin Pemberton
Direct Action Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
Help(2) various artists
CODA Sian Heder
The Book of Difficult Fruit Kate Lebo
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Grand Tour Miguel Gomes
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins

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