Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2014
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Compliance

by Craig Zobel

Appears on eight lists

#2 10 Best Movies of 2012: David Fear: Time Out New York
#7 10 Best Films of 2012: John Waters: Artforum
#7 20 Best Films of 2012: Matt Singer: IndieWire
#9 Top Ten Films of 2012: Jonathan Marlow: Fandor: Keyframe
#9 22 Favorite Movies of 2012: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
#12 The Best Films of 2012: Nathan Rabin: A.V. Club
#29 Top 50 Films of 2012: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
#44 50 Best Films of 2012: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
I Swear Kirk Jones
Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 Public Enemy
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
XXX Danny Brown
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
To Paradise Hanya Yanagihara
Roofman Derek Cianfrance
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Channel Orange Frank Ocean
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Human Acts Han Kang

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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