Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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A Return

by James Edmonds

Appears on two lists

4 Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018: Michael Sicinski
5 Top 50 Films of 2018: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant

Trending Works

The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Men Without Women Haruki Murakami
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Somebody Somewhere
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Mascarade Gayance
Fire Island Jack Parlett
Sleep Beneath the Willow Daniel Romano
Dirt Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
Puff LP: In the air without a shape Bernice
Le silence des troupeaux Philippe Brach
Release Spirit Khotin

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