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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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The Trouble with Being Born

by Sandra Wollner

Appears on three lists

#5 Best Films of 2020: Jonathan Romney: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
#5 Best Films of 2020: Andrew Simpson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
#9 Best Films of 2020: Guy Lodge: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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