Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Film Comment Poll: 20 Best Films of 2014
Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2014
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2016 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Films of 2015 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 5 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant

Trending Works

The End of Everything M. John Harrison
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross
Forged
Tár Todd Field
Broken Knowz Jay Daniel
Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
First Reformed Paul Schrader
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Rat Saw God Wednesday
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Tin Man Sarah Winman
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will Mogwai

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