Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Vigil

by Keith Thomas

Appears on two lists

#62 The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire

The Ten Best Films of 2021: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid Honorable mention

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2026 Award The Mercury Prize
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2024 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll

Trending Works

Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Behold Shara McCallum
Queer Luca Guadagnino
Ida Pawel Pawlikowski
Roma Alfonso Cuarón
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Still Life with Monkey Katharine Weber
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Hard Truths Mike Leigh
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Night Palace Mount Eerie
Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa

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