Year-End Lists

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

by Arthur Harari

Appears on five lists

4 Best Films of 2022: Philip Concannon: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
9 Best Films of 2022: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
11 20 Essential Films of 2021: Les Inrocks
18 The 20 Best Films of 2022: BBC: BBC Culture
19 Best Films of 2022: Antoine Thirion: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Trending Lists

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Favorite Poetry of 2017 Dennis Cooper
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
Defiance Loubna Mrie
I Never Learn Lykke Li
Our Time Carlos Reygadas
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson
Horses Jake Skeets
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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