Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Michael Sicinski: Top 12 Films of 2014
Karina Longworth: 16 Favorite Movies of 2014
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Cheerful Scapegoat

by Wayne Koestenbaum

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Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2021: Dennis Cooper Fiction (in no order)

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25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2022 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Last of Us
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Have a Nice Day Liu Jian
Hit Man Richard Linklater
The Big Sick Michael Showalter
Popcast
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Adam Buxton Podcast

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