Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater
- 13 Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018: Michael Sicinski
- 22 Top 50 Films of 2018: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Paradise Slow Club
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Wes Ball
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking C.T. Salazar
Landline Gillian Robespierre
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Homo Sapiens Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Pierre Földes
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast

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