Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
In Review Online: Top 20 Films of 2014
Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2014
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The Knockout Queen

by Rufi Thorpe

Appears on two lists

23 Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

Fiction 2021: PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Roller Trio Roller Trio
Decadence and Decay Silver Talon
Forest Floor Fergus McCreadie
Retro Karthik Subbaraj
Bad with Names corto.alto
Novelist Guy Novelist
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Red Island House Andrea Lee
goodbye, world! miffle
Against Memoir Michelle Tea
Blue Lights
Vagina Obscura Rachel E. Gross
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins

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