Year-End Lists

Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s

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1. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
   Kanye West
3. Red
   Taylor Swift
4. Blond
   Frank Ocean
5. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
6. Melodrama
   Lorde
7. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
8. Modern Vampires of the City
   Vampire Weekend
9. Take Care
   Drake
10. Anti
    Rihanna
11. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
12. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
13. Channel Orange
    Frank Ocean
14. Yeezus
    Kanye West
15. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
16. The Suburbs
    Arcade Fire
17. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
18. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
19. Ctrl
    SZA
20. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
21. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
22. Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom
23. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
24. Teen Dream
    Beach House
25. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
26. High Violet
    The National
27. Body Talk
    Robyn
28. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
29. Pure Heroine
    Lorde
30. Nothing Was the Same
    Drake
31. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
32. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
33. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
34. 1989
    Taylor Swift
35. 2014 Forest Hills Drive
    J. Cole
36. This Is Happening
    LCD Soundsystem
37. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
38. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
39. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
40. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
41. Settle
    Disclosure
42. My Name Is My Name
    Pusha T
43. Visions
    Grimes
44. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
45. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
46. Lost in the Dream
    The War on Drugs
47. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
48. thank u, next
    Ariana Grande
49. Puberty 2
    Mitski
50. Victory Lap
    Nipsey Hussle
51. In Colour
    Jamie xx
52. Blackstar
    David Bowie
53. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
54. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
55. Titanic Rising
    Weyes Blood
56. I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
    Earl Sweatshirt
57. Currents
    Tame Impala
58. St. Vincent
    St. Vincent
59. DS2
    Future
60. LP1
    FKA twigs
61. Cosmogramma
    Flying Lotus
62. Helplessness Blues
    Fleet Foxes
63. LIVE.LOVE.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
64. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
65. Watch the Throne
    Jay-Z and Kanye West
66. Sprained Ankle
    Julien Baker
67. Nostalgia, Ultra
    Frank Ocean
68. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
69. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
70. James Blake
    James Blake
71. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
72. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
73. The Divine Feminine
    Mac Miller
74. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
75. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
76. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
77. SremmLife
    Rae Sremmurd
78. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    Sturgill Simpson
79. Room 25
    Noname
80. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
81. Pop 2
    Charli XCX
82. Slime Season 3
    Young Thug
83. I See You
    The xx
84. U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief
85. Pink Friday
    Nicki Minaj
86. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
87. 4:44
    JAY-Z
88. Heartthrob
    Tegan and Sara
89. Psychic
    Darkside
90. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
91. My Krazy Life
    YG
92. Born This Way
    Lady Gaga
93. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
94. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
95. Platinum
    Miranda Lambert
96. Culture
    Migos
97. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
98. Habits & Contradictions
    Schoolboy Q
99. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
100. Luv Is Rage 2
     Lil Uzi Vert

Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of the Decade

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1. Visions
   Grimes
2. Have One On Me
   Joanna Newsom
3. Teen Dream
   Beach House
4. Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
   Jai Paul
5. Black Up
   Shabazz Palaces
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
   Lana Del Rey
7. A I A
   Grouper
8. Kill for Love
   Chromatics
9. Black Messiah
   D’Angelo and The Vanguard
10. Rival Dealer
    Burial
11. Devotion
    Tirzah
12. From the Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. I – IV
    Helena Deland
13. Tender Opposites
    Tops
14. Pull My Hair Back
    Jessy Lanza
15. Act of Tenderness
    Cindy Lee
16. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
17. Tomboy
    Panda Bear
18. Product
    Sophie
19. XXX
    Danny Brown
20. Blond
    Frank Ocean
21. Quarantine
    Laurel Halo
22. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
23. Playboi Carti
    Playboi Carti
24. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
25. Essentials
    Erika de Casier
26. Pop 2
    Charli XCX
27. Body Talk
    Robyn
28. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
29. U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief
30. That We Can Play
    Games
31. Public Strain
    Women
32. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
33. Black is Beautiful
    Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
34. Eccojams Vol. 1
    Chuck Person
35. Have You In My Wilderness
    Julia Holter
36. Double Cup
    DJ Rashad
37. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
38. EP2
    yaeji
39. LIVE.LOVE.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
40. Instrumentals
    Clams Casino
41. The Magic Place
    Julianna Barwick
42. Replica
    Oneohtrix Point Never
43. Barter 6
    Young Thug
44. The Original Faces
    Helen
45. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
46. Intro Bonito
    Kero Kero Bonito
47. The OOZ
    King Krule
48. Color Your Life
    Mr Twin Sister
49. EP2
    FKA twigs
50. Held
    Holy Other

IndieWire: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

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1. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
2. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
3. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
4. The Act of Killing
   Joshua Oppenheimer
4. The Look of Silence
   Joshua Oppenheimer
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
6. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
7. Carol
   Todd Haynes
8. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
10. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
11. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
12. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
13. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
14. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
15. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
16. The Social Network
    David Fincher
17. World of Tomorrow
    Don Hertzfeldt
18. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
19. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
20. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
21. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
22. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
23. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
24. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
25. Amour
    Michael Haneke
26. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
27. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
28. Paddington 2
    Paul King
29. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
30. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
31. Somewhere
    Sofia Coppola
32. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
33. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
34. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
35. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
36. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
37. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
38. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
39. The Babadook
    Jennifer Kent
40. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
41. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
42. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
43. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
44. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
45. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
46. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
47. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
48. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
49. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
50. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    Isao Takahata
51. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
52. Eden
    Mia Hansen-Løve
53. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
54. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
55. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
56. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
57. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
58. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
59. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
60. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
61. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
62. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
63. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
64. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
65. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
66. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
67. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
68. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín
69. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
70. Pariah
    Dee Rees
71. Goodbye to Language
    Jean-Luc Godard
72. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
73. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
74. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
75. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
76. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
77. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
78. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
79. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
    David Zellner
80. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
81. High Life
    Claire Denis
82. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
83. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
84. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
85. The Illusionist
    Sylvain Chomet
86. Kate Plays Christine
    Robert Greene
87. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
88. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay
89. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
90. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
91. Fire at Sea
    Gianfranco Rosi
92. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
93. Mother of George
    Andrew Dosunmu
94. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
95. The Arbor
    Clio Barnard
96. Girl Walk // All Day
    Jacob Krupnick
97. All These Sleepless Nights
    Michal Marczak
98. The Great Gatsby
    Baz Luhrmann
99. The Loneliest Planet
    Julia Loktev
100. Inherent Vice
     Paul Thomas Anderson