Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Your Queen Is a Reptile
   Sons of Kemet
2. Terminal
   ZULI
3. Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
   Ben Lamar Gay
4. My Mother the Vent
   Guttersnipe
5. Veteran
   JPEGMAFIA
6. Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
   Sarah Davachi
7. Sujud
   Senyawa
8. NTS Sessions 1-4
   Autechre
9. The Switch
   Body/Head
10. Double Negative
    Low
11. Daqa'iq Tudaiq
    Jerusalem in My Heart
12. Aviary
    Julia Holter
13. Stadium
    Eli Keszler
14. Insula
    Proc Fiskal
15. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
16. Pillars
    Tyshawn Sorey
17. Metal Aether
    Lea Bertucci
18. Daytona
    Pusha T
19. IRISIRI
    Eartheater
20. Pylon II
    Nordra
21. Devotion
    Tirzah
22. Brace Up!
    Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
23. Tahoe
    Dedekind Cut
24. Everything's Fine
    Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris
25. Talk in a bit
    Hannah Silva
26. для FOR
    Kate NV
27. Faithful Fairy Harmony
    Josephine Foster
28. Black Helicopters
    Agnarkea
29. Lala Belu
    Hailu Mergia
30. Sleep Like It's Winter
    Jim O’Rourke
31. Brass Orchids
    Anne Guthrie
32. The Dream My Bones Dream
    Eiko Ishibashi
33. Raw Silk Uncut Wood
    Laurel Halo
34. Hilja
    Cucina Povera
35. The Return
    Kamaal Williams
36. Queen of Golden Dogs
    Vessel
37. Hydrorion Remnants
    Embassador Dulgoon
38. Room 25
    Noname
39. Autobiography
    Jlin
40. Grid of Points
    Grouper
41. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
42. Qualm
    Helena Hauff
43. The Dark Orchestra
    Nkisi
44. Pastoral
    Gazelle Twin
45. İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir
    Gaye Su Akyol
46. Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One)
    Jon Hassell
47. Ecce Homo
    Ipek Gorgun
48. Communion
    Park Jiha
49. Bloody Sirens
    Musarc/Neil Luck
50. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor

Uproxx: 50 Best Albums Of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

1. ASTROWORLD
   Travis Scott
2. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
3. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
   Arctic Monkeys
4. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
5. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
6. Room 25
   Noname
7. God’s Favorite Customer
   Father John Misty
8. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
9. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
   The 1975
10. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
11. Honey
    Robyn
12. Care for Me
    Saba
13. 7
    Beach House
14. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
15. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
    Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
16. Bloom
    Troye Sivan
17. DiCaprio 2
    JID
18. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
19. Daytona
    Pusha T
20. Camila
    Camila Cabello
21. Victory Lap
    Nipsey Hussle
22. Knock Knock
    DJ Koze
23. boygenius
    boygenius
24. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
25. I Need to Start a Garden
    Haley Heynderickx
26. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
27. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
28. Pieces of a Man
    Mick Jenkins
29. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
30. Grid of Points
    Grouper
31. Wanderer
    Cat Power
32. C’est La Vie
    Phosphorescent
33. Lush
    Snail Mail
34. Good Thing
    Leon Bridges
35. Yolk in the Fur
    Wild Pink
36. Everything Is Love
    The Carters
37. Nearer My God
    Foxing
38. so sad so sexy
    Lykke Li
39. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
40. beerbongs & bentleys
    Post Malone
41. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
42. Voicenotes
    Charlie Puth
43. Scorpion
    Drake
44. Marauder
    Interpol
45. Art of Doubt
    Metric
46. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
47. Heaven
    Dilly Dally
48. Light of Mine
    Kyle
49. Devotion
    Tirzah
50. Swimming
    Mac Miller

Richard Lawson: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Vanity Fair

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1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
4. Free Solo
   Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
5. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
6. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
8. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
9. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
10. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    Ol Parker

Matt Zoller Seitz: 10 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Atlanta
2. Pose
3. Better Call Saul
4. Homecoming
5. The Americans
6. Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
7. Glow
8. Sorry for Your Loss
9. Succession
10. Sharp Objects

Craig Jenkins: 15 Best Albums of 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
2. Double Negative
   Low
3. Interstate Gospel
   Pistol Annies
4. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
5. Daytona
   Pusha T
6. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
   Arctic Monkeys
7. Swimming
   Mac Miller
8. Some Rap Songs
   Earl Sweatshirt
9. The Sciences
   Sleep
10. Caution
    Mariah Carey
11. The Now Now
    Gorillaz
12. Our Raw Heart
    YOB
13. My Dear Melancholy
    The Weeknd
14. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
15. All Nerve
    The Breeders

Margaret Lyons: The Best New Shows of 2018, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Barry
1. Killing Eve
3. Lodge 49
4. America to Me
5. Queer Eye
6. You
7. Sorry for Your Loss
8. Corporate
9. Cupcake & Dino: General Services
10. Pose

James Poniewozik: Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

• The Americans
• America to Me
• Atlanta
• Barry
• Killing Eve
• BoJack Horseman
• The Good Fight
• Homecoming
• Lodge 49
• Pose
• Sharp Objects

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2018

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1. The Wild Boys
   Bertrand Mandico
2. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
   Bruno Dumont
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
5. Paul Sanchez is Back!
   Patricia Mazuy
6. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
7. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
8. The House That Jack Built
   Lars von Trier
9. Leto
   Kirill Serebrennikov
10. Treasure Island
    Guillaume Brac

David Edelstein: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
5. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
6. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
   Morgan Neville
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
8. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
9. Fahrenheit 11/9
   Michael Moore
10. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik

The Ringer: Best Television Shows of 2018, composed by Alison Herman and Chris Ryan

[see also 2022 • 2020]

1. Killing Eve
2. Succession
3. Atlanta
4. The Little Drummer Girl
5. The Good Fight
6. Barry
7. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
8. Better Call Saul
9. Howards End
10. Queer Eye