Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
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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Connie Schultz

The Daughters of Erietown
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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