Year-End Lists

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Film Comment Poll: 20 Best Films of 2014
IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2014
Karina Longworth: 16 Favorite Movies of 2014
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Known and Strange Things

Essays

by Teju Cole

Appears on four lists

5 The 10 Best Books of 2016: Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture
10 The 13 Best Books of 2016: Harper’s Bazaar
4 Top 20 Books of 2016: Sarah Begley: Time Nonfiction

100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle Nonfiction

Trending Lists

20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland

Trending Works

The Last Race Michael Dweck
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Havoc Gareth Evans
The Long Farewell Kira Muratova
Juror #2 Clint Eastwood
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Diablo Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Goodbye to Language Jean-Luc Godard
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
I Don't Know How but They Found Me! Jensen McRae
The Wailing Na Hong-jin
Weekend Andrew Haigh
Peaces Helen Oyeyemi
Cult Classic Sloane Crosley

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