Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Color Purple

by Blitz Bazawule

Appears on five lists

#4 Top Ten Films of 2023: Carla Renata: RogerEbert.com
#6 Best Movies of 2023: Brian Truitt: USA Today
#6 Top Ten Films of 2023: Sarah Knight Adamson: RogerEbert.com
#19 The Best Movies of 2023: Richard Brody: New Yorker

The Best Movies of 2023: Peter Debruge: Variety 10 more for good measure

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Movies of 2024 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Dana Stevens · Slate
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Queer Luca Guadagnino
Behold Shara McCallum
Night Palace Mount Eerie
Roma Alfonso Cuarón
Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa
May December Todd Haynes
Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Hard Truths Mike Leigh
Hold It 'Til It Hurts T. Geronimo Johnson
Ida Pawel Pawlikowski
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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