Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Guardian: The 50 Best Movies of 2025
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Vanity Fair: Movies: 2010s

The 10 Best Movies of the 2010s Richard Lawson · Vanity Fair
The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s K. Austin Collins · Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
31 Best Fiction Books of 2017 Guardian

Trending Works

A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast
Paradise Slow Club
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Pierre Földes
Brenie Richard Linklater
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Death is Nothing to Us Fiddlehead
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Wes Ball
Homo Sapiens Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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