Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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Bessie

by Dee Rees

Appears on two lists

#10 Favorite Fifteen Films of 2015: Marya E. Gates

Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles

Trending Lists

Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant

Trending Works

The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Essays One Lydia Davis
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend

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