Year-End Lists

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The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Windswept Adan

by Ichiko Aoba

Appears on two lists

#5 50 Best Albums of 2020: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
#18 Top 50 Albums of 2020: Beats Per Minute

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Kitten Stacey Yu
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones

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