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Five Books That Changed How I Think About Movies

My 2025 best-of list

Ed William
Dec 23, 2025
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It’s December, which means all Substack writers must share a year-end listicle or else they will be ritualistically disembowelled by a pack of rabid wolves.

I’ve filtered this list through the slightly arbitrary criteria of the books that ‘most changed how I think about movies,’ before breaking that rule for a bonus fiction recommendation (because why no…

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