Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Noel Murray: The Dissolve: Top 15 Films of 2014
Screen Slate: Best Movies of 2025
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Passages
- Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2021: Dennis Cooper Fiction (in no order)
The Unmapped Country
- Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018: Dennis Cooper Fiction

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

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

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