Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
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Highlights
Guardian: Mark Kermode: 10 Best Films of 2022
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2022
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2022
NPR Music: Bob Boilen: Top Ten Albums of 2018
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2018 Movies
Jeffrey M. Anderson: Top Ten Films of 2018
28 December 2018
Jeffrey M. Anderson
:
Top Ten Films of 2018
[see also
2017
]
Roma
Alfonso Cuaron
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
First Reformed
Paul Schrader
The Other Side of the Wind
Orson Welles
24 Frames
Abbas Kiarostami
Let the Sunshine In
Claire Denis
Black Panther
Ryan Coogler
You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel & Ethan Coen
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
9 Runners up (in alphabetical order)
Burning
Lee Chang-dong
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham
Hereditary
Ari Aster
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
A Quiet Place
John Krasinski
Stan & Ollie
Jon S. Baird
Support the Girls
Andrew Bujalski
Leave No Trace
Debra Granik
Monrovia, Indiana
Frederick Wiseman
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)
Annihilation
Alex Garland
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Peyton Reed
Avengers: Infinity Wars
Anthony and Joe Russo
Destroyer
Karyn Kusama
Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio
The Great Buster
Peter Bogdanovich
The Guilty
Gustav Möller
Incredibles 2
Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson
Minding the Gap
Bing Liu
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Christopher McQuarrie
The Mule
Clint Eastwood
The Old Man & the Gun
David Lowery
Paddington 2
Paul King
Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg
The Rider
Chloé Zhao
Searching
Aneesh Chaganty
Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Morgan Neville
Zama
Lucrecia Martel