Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

by Griffin Dunne

Appears on two lists

#79 Favorite Films of 2017: Scout Tafoya

63 Best Films of 2017: Glenn Kenny Second Tier Honorable Mentions

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth

Trending Works

The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Circe Madeline Miller
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar

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