Year-End Lists

K. Austin Collins: The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by Vanity Fair, presented alphabetically

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Act of Killing: Director's Cut
   Joshua Oppenheimer
2. Carol
   Todd Haynes
3. The Day He Arrives
   Hong Sang-soo
4. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
   Travis Wilkerson
5. Drug War
   Johnnie To
6. Field Niggas
   Khalik Allah
7. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
8. The Future
   Miranda July
9. Gone Girl
   David Fincher
10. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
11. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
12. In Jackson Heights
    Frederick Wiseman
13. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
14. It Felt Like Love
    Eliza Hittman
15. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
16. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
17. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
18. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
19. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
20. The Missing Picture
    Rithy Panh
21. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
22. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
23. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
24. A Touch of Sin
    Jia Zhang-ke
25. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
26. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    John Hyams
27. Unstoppable
    Tony Scott
28. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
29. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
30. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese

Richard Brody: The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

• The Wolf of Wall Street
  Martin Scorsese
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• An Elephant Sitting Still
  Hu Bo
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• The Future
  Miranda July
• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
  Wes Anderson
• Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• Li’l Quinquin
  Bruno Dumont
• Film Socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
  Terence Nance
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Coma
  Sara Fattahi
• Red Hook Summer
  Spike Lee
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• It Felt Like Love
  Eliza Hittman
• The Last of the Unjust
  Claude Lanzmann
• In Jackson Heights
  Frederick Wiseman
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• A Screaming Man
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
  Jafar Panahi
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Infinite Football
  Corneliu Porumboiu

Esquire: The Best TV Shows of the 2010s

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Atlanta
2. Breaking Bad
3. Mad Men
4. The Americans
5. Fleabag
6. Black Mirror
7. Bob’s Burgers
8. Parks and Recreation
9. Veep
10. Game of Thrones

RogerEbert.com: The Best Television of the 2010s, as chosen by TV critics Brian Tallerico and Allison Shoemaker

[see also 2023]

1. The Americans
2. Mad Men
3. Breaking Bad
4. The Leftovers
5. Fleabag
6. Hannibal
7. Atlanta
8. The Good Place
9. Parks and Recreation
10. Twin Peaks: The Return
11. Better Call Saul
12. Halt and Catch Fire
13. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
14. Enlightened
15. When They See Us
16. 30 Rock
17. O.J.: Made in America
18. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
19. Rectify
20. American Crime Story
21. Bob’s Burgers
22. The Tale
23. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
24. Veep
25. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Honorable Mentions

• America to Me
• Barry
• Big Little Lies
• Boardwalk Empire
• Community
• Dear White People
• Documentary Now!
• The Good Fight
• Gravity Falls
• Justified
• Killing Eve
• Mindhunter
• One Day at a Time
• Pose
• Review
• Russian Doll
• Schitt's Creek
• Southland
• Steven Universe
• Succession
• Superstore
• True Detective
• Unbelievable
• Westworld
• You’re the Worst

Esquire: The Best Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2023]

1. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Body Talk
   Robyn
3. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
4. The Suburbs
   Arcade Fire
5. Blackstar
   David Bowie
6. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
7. All American Made
   Margo Price
8. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
9. Anti
   Rihanna
10. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    Kanye West

Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
4. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
5. Little Women
   Greta Gerwig
6. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
7. Knives Out
   Rian Johnson
8. Dolemite Is My Name
   Craig Brewer
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
   Marielle Heller
10. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria

Honorable Mentions

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• The Beach Bum
  Harmony Korine
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Booksmart
  Olivia Wilde
• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Birds of Passage
  Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• 1917
  Sam Mendes
• Gloria Bell
  Sebastián Lelio
• Motherless Brooklyn
  Edward Norton

Esquire: The Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2022]

1. The Social Network
   David Fincher
2. Before Midnight
   Richard Linklater
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
7. The Lobster
   Yorgos Lanthimos
8. The Handmaiden
   Park Chan-wook
9. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
10. Paddington 2
    Paul King

The Independent: The 40 Best Films of the 2010s, curated by Clarisse Loughrey, Geoffrey Macnab and Adam White

1. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
2. Carol
   Todd Haynes
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
6. American Honey
   Andrea Arnold
7. Paddington 2
   Paul King
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
9. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
10. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
11. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
12. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
13. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
14. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
15. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
16. The Selfish Giant
    Clio Barnard
17. Stoker
    Park Chan-wook
18. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
19. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
20. Black Swan
    Darren Aronofsky
21. The Social Network
    David Fincher
22. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
23. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
24. Her
    Spike Jonze
25. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
26. Boy
    Taika Waititi
27. Selma
    Ava DuVernay
28. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
29. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
30. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
31. The Revenant
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
32. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
33. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
34. The Edge of Seventeen
    Kelly Fremon Craig
35. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
36. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
37. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
38. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
39. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
40. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino

Entertainment Weekly: Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. A Visit from the Goon Squad
   Jennifer Egan
2. Life After Life
   Kate Atkinson
3. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
4. The Flamethrowers
   Rachel Kushner
5. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
6. Commonwealth
   Ann Patchett
7. Station Eleven
   Emily St. John Mandel
8. Fates and Furies
   Lauren Groff
9. A Brief History of Seven Killings
   Marlon James
10. Normal People
    Sally Rooney

The Next 10

• All the Light We Cannot See
  Anthony Doerr
• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Anything Is Possible
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Goldfinch
  Donna Tartt
• Gone Girl
  Gillian Flynn
• The Interestings
  Meg Wolitzer
• LaRose
  Louise Erdrich
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2019

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
  Shoshana Zuboff
• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson
• Antisocial

  Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
  Andrew Marantz
• Audience of One

  Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
  James Poniewozik
• Bangkok Wakes to Rain
  Pitchaya Sudbanthad
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama
• The Beneficiary

  Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
  Janny Scott
• The Body in Question
  Jill Ciment
• Bottle of Lies

  The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
  Katherine Eban
• The British Are Coming

  The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
  Rick Atkinson
• Cherokee, America
  Margaret Verble
• The Club

  Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
  Leo Damrosch
• The Conservative Sensibility
  George F. Will
• The Crowded Hour

  Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
  Clay Risen
• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Disappearing Earth
  Julia Phillips
• Ducks, Newburyport
  Lucy Ellmann
• The Dutch House
  Ann Patchett
• The Education of an Idealist
  Samantha Power
• Exhalation
  Ted Chiang
• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
  Neal Stephenson
• Fleishman Is in Trouble
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Full Throttle
  Joe Hill
• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• Girl
  Edna O’Brien
• The Godmother
  Hannelore Cayre
• The Gone Dead
  Chanelle Benz
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• Grace Will Lead Us Home

  The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
  Jennifer Berry Hawes
• The Grammarians
  Cathleen Schine
• Grand Union
  Zadie Smith
• Growing Things
  Paul Tremblay
• The Guarded Gate

  Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
  Daniel Okrent
• Guest House for Young Widows

  Among the Women of ISIS
  Azadeh Moaveni
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America from 1890 to the Present
  David Treuer
• The Heavens
  Sandra Newman
• Horizon
  Barry Lopez
• How to Be an Antiracist
  Ibram X. Kendi
• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones
• If

  The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
  Christopher Benfey
• The Impeachers

  The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
  Brenda Wineapple
• In Byron's Wake

  The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
  Miranda Seymour
• In Hoffa's Shadow

  A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
  Jack Goldsmith
• The Institute
  Stephen King
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller
• Kochland

  The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
  Christopher Leonard
• Last Day
  Domenica Ruta
• The Last Whalers

  Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
  Doug Bock Clark
• The Lost Art of Scripture

  Rescuing the Sacred Texts
  Karen Armstrong
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Lot
  Bryan Washington
• Maid

  Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
  Stephanie Land
• Mama's Last Hug

  Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
  Frans de Waal
• Maggie Brown & Others
  Peter Orner
• The Man Who Saw Everything
  Deborah Levy
• Margaret Thatcher

  The Authorized Biography: Herself Alone
  Charles Moore
• The Mastermind

  Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal
  Evan Ratliff
• The Memory Police
  Yoko Ogawa
• Midnight in Chernobyl

  The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
  Adam Higginbotham
• Mostly Dead Things
  Kristen Arnett
• Mrs. Everything
  Jennifer Weiner
• The Need
  Helen Phillips
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Night Boat to Tangier
  Kevin Barry
• No Visible Bruises

  What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
  Rachel Louise Snyder
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Nothing to See Here
  Kevin Wilson
• Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
  Andrew Miller
• The Octopus Museum
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• The Old Drift
  Namwali Serpell
• Optic Nerve
  Maria Gainza
• Our Man

  Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
  George Packer
• The Parisian
  Isabella Hammad
• The Problem with Everything

  My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
  Meghan Daum
• Rabbits for Food
  Binnie Kirshenbaum
• Red at the Bone
  Jacqueline Woodson
• The Revisioners
  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Rusty Brown
  Chris Ware
• Say Nothing

  A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Separate

  The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
  Steve Luxenberg
• The Shadow King
  Maaza Mengiste
• She Said

  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
  Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
• She Was Like That

  New and Selected Stories
  Kate Walbert
• Solitary

  Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope
  Albert Woodfox
• Spring
  Ali Smith
• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
  Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• The Testaments
  Margaret Atwood
• Thick

  And Other Essays
  Tressie McMillan Cottom
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• Underland

  A Deep Time Journey
  Robert Macfarlane
• The Uninhabitable Earth

  Life After Warming
  David Wallace-Wells
• The Unwinding of the Miracle

  A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
  Julie Yip-Williams
• The War Before the War

  Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
  Andrew Delbanco
• Westside
  W.M. Akers
• What You Have Heard Is True

  A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  Carolyn Forché
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• Women's Work

  A Reckoning with Work and Home
  Megan K. Stack
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom