Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2018 Movies

Ben Kenigsberg: Top Ten Films of 2018

15 December 2018

Ben Kenigsberg: Top Ten Films of 2018, as submitted to the RogerEbert.com Survey

[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

  1. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
  2. The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
  3. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
  4. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
  5. Classical Period — Ted Fendt
  6. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
  7. Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley
  8. Western — Valeska Grisebach
  9. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
  10. Monrovia, Indiana — Frederick Wiseman
2018 Albums

Fact: Best Albums of 2018

15 December 2018

Fact Magazine: Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

  1. Lotic — Power
  2. Pendant — Make Me Know You Sweet
  3. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
  4. Barker — Debiasing
  5. Rico Nasty — Nasty
  6. Aïsha Devi — DNA Feelings
  7. Gábor Lázár — Unfold
  8. Tierra Whack — Whack World
  9. Vessel — Queen of Golden Dogs
  10. Duppy Gun — Miro Tape
  11. LSDXOXO — Body Mods
  12. serpentwithfeet — soil
  13. Tirzah — Devotion
  14. Debit — Animus
  15. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
  16. Amnesia Scanner — Another Life
  17. Neville Watson — The Midnight Orchard
  18. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
  19. Renick Bell — Turning Points
  20. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
  21. Sarah Davachi — Gave In Rest
  22. cupcakKe — Ephorize
  23. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
  24. TSVI — Inner Worlds
  25. Space Afrika — Somewhere Decent To Live
  26. Hilary Woods — Colt
  27. Astrid Sonne — Human Lines
  28. Kelman Duran — 13th Month
  29. Young Nudy — SlimeBall 3
  30. Tess Roby — Beacon
  31. City Girls — Period
  32. Beta Librae — Sanguine Bond
  33. Martyn Bootyspoon — Silk Eternity
  34. Kali Uchis — Isolation
  35. Playboi Carti — Die Lit
  36. Bruce — Sonder Somatic
  37. H.Takahashi — Low Power
  38. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
  39. Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood
  40. Teyana Taylor — K.T.S.E.
  41. Cecilia — Adoration
  42. Skee Mask — Compro
  43. Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
  44. Eli Keszler — Stadium
  45. Maxo Kream — Punken
  46. Kali Malone — Organ Dirges 2016​-​2017
  47. Various Artists — Patina Echoes
  48. Chevel — Always Yours
  49. Low — Double Negative
  50. Mariah Carey — Caution
2018 Movies

Matt Zoller Seitz: Top Ten Films of 2018

15 December 2018

Matt Zoller Seitz: Top Ten Films of 2018, as submitted to the RogerEbert.com Survey

[see also 2017]

  1. A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
  2. Annihilation — Alex Garland
  3. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
  4. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
  5. Shoah: Four Sisters — Claude Lanzmann
  6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
  7. Hereditary — Ari Aster
  8. Searching — Aneesh Chaganty
  9. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
  10. Bodied — Joseph Kahn
2018 Albums

PopMatters: 70 Best Albums of 2018

15 December 2018

PopMatters: 70 Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2017, 2012, 2011]

  1. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
  2. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
  3. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
  4. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
  5. serpentwithfeet — soil
  6. George FitzGerald — All That Must Be
  7. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
  8. Lotic — Power
  9. Noname — Room 25
  10. Maribou State — Kingdoms In Colour
  11. Robyn — Honey
  12. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
  13. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
  14. Ray BLK — Empress
  15. Saba — Care for Me
  16. Julia Holter — Aviary
  17. Christine and the Queens — Chris
  18. Rival Consoles — Persona
  19. St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Young Sick Camellia
  20. Tangents — New Bodies
  21. Vessel — Queen of Golden Dogs
  22. Low — Double Negative
  23. Lonnie Holley — MITH
  24. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
  25. Neko Case — Hell-On
  26. Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
  27. boygenius — boygenius
  28. Tim Hecker — Konoyo
  29. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
  30. Benin City — Last Night
  31. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
  32. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers — Years
  33. I’m With Her — See You Around
  34. Beach House — 7
  35. Ital Tek — Bodied
  36. Eartheater — IRISIRI
  37. Pistol Annies — Interstate Gospel
  38. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
  39. BROCKHAMPTON — iridescence
  40. Jorja Smith — Lost & Found
  41. Kelly Moran — Ultraviolet
  42. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
  43. St. Lenox — Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love
  44. Elysia Crampton — Elysia Crampton
  45. Chvrches — Love Is Dead
  46. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
  47. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
  48. Okzharp & Manthe Ribane — Closer Apart
  49. Fatoumata Diawara — Fenfo
  50. Jeff Rosenstock — Post-
  51. DJ Koze — Knock Knock
  52. Field Music — Open Here
  53. Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
  54. Lucy Dacus — Historian
  55. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 — Black Times
  56. Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet — Landfall
  57. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
  58. Old Crow Medicine Show — Volunteer
  59. Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
  60. David Byrne — American Utopia
  61. Gwenno — Le Kov
  62. Pusha T — Daytona
  63. Brandi Carlile — By The Way, I Forgive You
  64. Florence + The Machine — High As Hope
  65. Armand Hammer — Paraffin
  66. Dilly Dally — Heaven
  67. Tracey Thorn — Record
  68. Kyle Craft — Full Circle Nightmare
  69. Ghost — Prequelle
  70. Gregory Alan Isakov — Evening Machines
2018 Movies

Playlist: 25 Best Films of 2018

15 December 2018

The Playlist: 25 Best Films of 2018

  1. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
  2. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
  3. Hereditary — Ari Aster
  4. Annihilation — Alex Garland
  5. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
  6. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
  7. Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
  8. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
  9. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
  10. Suspiria — Luca Guadagnino
  11. Paddington 2 — Paul King
  12. First Man — Damien Chazelle
  13. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
  14. Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
  15. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
  16. A Quiet Place — John Krasinski
  17. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
  18. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
  19. Wildlife — Paul Dano
  20. The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
  21. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
  22. A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
  23. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
  24. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
  25. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler

    Just a point or two from cracking the top 25

  1. Blindspotting — Carlos López Estrada
  2. Vice — Adam McKay
  3. Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
  4. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
  5. Crazy Rich Asians — Jon M. Chu

    After that

  1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
  2. Widows — Steve McQueen
  3. Thunder Road — Jim Cummings
  4. Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley
  5. Love, Simon — Greg Berlanti
  6. Incredibles 2 — Brad Bird
  7. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
  8. The Tale — Jennifer Fox
  9. Custody — Xavier Legrand
  10. Claire’s Camera — Hong Sang-soo
  11. Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
  12. Upgrade — Leigh Whannell
  13. Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
  14. 1985 — Yen Tan
  15. Araby — João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa
  16. Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
  17. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
  18. Vox Lux — Brady Corbet
  19. Museo — Alonso Ruizpalacios
  20. This Is Congo — Daniel McCabe

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