Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s

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

1. Breaking Bad
2. Mad Men
3. Atlanta
4. Parks and Recreation
5. The Americans
6. The Good Place
7. The Leftovers
8. Bob’s Burgers
9. 30 Rock
10. Fleabag
11. BoJack Horseman
12. Hannibal
13. Community
14. Twin Peaks: The Return
15. Better Call Saul
16. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
17. Rick and Morty
18. American Crime Story
19. Review
20. Veep
21. Justified
22. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
23. Barry
24. Enlightened
25. The Great British Bake Off
26. Rectify
27. Nathan for You
28. Russian Doll
29. Halt and Catch Fire
30. Game of Thrones
31. Key and Peele
32. New Girl
33. Succession
34. Broad City
35. You’re the Worst
36. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
37. Documentary Now!
38. One Day at a Time
39. Jane the Virgin
40. Steven Universe
41. Pose
42. Stranger Things
43. Schitt's Creek
44. Fargo
45. GLOW
46. Happy Endings
47. Archer
48. Gravity Falls
49. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
50. Adventure Time
51. Sharp Objects
52. Insecure
53. The Good Wife
54. Terriers
55. Mr. Robot
56. Lodge 49
57. Black Mirror
58. American Vandal
59. Killing Eve
60. Orange is the New Black
61. Girls
62. Better Things
63. High Maintenance
64. RuPaul's Drag Race
65. Legends of Tomorrow
66. When They See Us
67. Big Mouth
68. Treme
69. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
70. Orphan Black
71. Big Little Lies
72. Lady Dynamite
73. Person of Interest
74. Mindhunter
75. Silicon Valley
76. Penny Dreadful
77. Chernobyl
78. Catastrophe
79. Drunk History
80. Fringe
81. Looking
82. Tuca & Bertie
83. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
84. Sense8
85. Grey's Anatomy
86. The Crown
87. Master of None
88. Undone
89. O.J.: Made in America
90. Vida
91. Broadchurch
92. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
93. Banshee
94. The Good Fight
95. Over the Garden Wall
96. Doctor Who
97. This Is Us
98. Alias Grace
99. Childrens Hospital
100. Show Me a Hero

Paste Magazine: The 30 Best Podcasts of the 2010s

1. This American Life
2. WTF with Marc Maron
3. S-Town
4. Dirty John
5. Serial
6. Planet Money
7. Limetown
8. Stuff You Should Know
9. Homecoming
10. How Did This Get Made?
11. Comedy Bang Bang
12. Doughboys
13. The Best Show
14. Chapo Trap House
15. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
16. Ear Hustle
17. Lore
18. Buffering the Vampire Slayer
19. You Made It Weird
20. Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
21. Harmontown
22. Race Chaser
23. Game Studies Study Buddies
24. Who? Weekly
25. Welcome to Night Vale
26. Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
27. Blank Check
28. Last Podcast On The Left
29. The Daily
30. In the Dark

The Young Folks: Top 50 Films of the 2010s

1. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
3. The Social Network
   David Fincher
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
6. Inception
   Christopher Nolan
7. Her
   Spike Jonze
8. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
9. The Handmaiden
   Park Chan-wook
10. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
11. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
12. Obvious Child
    Gillian Robespierre
13. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
14. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
15. What We Do in the Shadows
    Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
16. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
17. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
18. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
19. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
20. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
21. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    Isao Takahata
22. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
23. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
24. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
25. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
26. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
27. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
28. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Edgar Wright
29. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
30. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
31. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
32. Beyond the Lights
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
33. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
34. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
35. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
36. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
37. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
38. Columbus
    Kogonada
39. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
40. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
41. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro
42. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
43. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
44. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
45. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
46. Prisoners
    Denis Villeneuve
47. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
48. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
49. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
50. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie

Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s, as published by Vice

[see also 2020 • 2019]

1. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
2. Tha Tour Part 1
   Rich Gang
3. Blond
   Frank Ocean
4. Nightmare Logic
   Power Trip
5. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
6. Double Cup
   DJ Rashad
7. Anti
   Rihanna
8. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
9. DS2
   Future
10. Replica
    Oneohtrix Point Never
11. Teen Dream
    Beach House
12. Kaleidoscope Dream
    Miguel
13. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
14. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
15. Ctrl
    SZA
16. X 100PRE
    Bad Bunny
17. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
18. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
19. Barter 6
    Young Thug
20. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    Kanye West
21. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
22. Body Talk
    Robyn
23. Almighty So
    Chief Keef
24. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
25. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
26. Arca
    Arca
27. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
28. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
29. The Monitor
    Titus Andronicus
30. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
31. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
32. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
33. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
34. Drunk
    Thundercat
35. Flockaveli
    Waka Flocka Flame
36. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
37. Pop 2
    Charli XCX
38. Cupid Deluxe
    Blood Orange
39. Visions
    Grimes
40. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
41. Frozen Niagara Falls
    Prurient
42. 56 Nights
    DJ Esco & Future
43. Halcyon Digest
    Deerhunter
44. Forever
    Popcaan
45. PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO
    PARTYNEXTDOOR
46. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
    Drake
47. Syro
    Aphex Twin
48. Channel Orange
    Frank Ocean
49. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
50. Odisea
    Ozuna
51. In Colour
    Jamie xx
52. Surgical Steel
    Carcass
53. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
54. Ruins
    Grouper
55. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
56. The Epic
    Kamasi Washington
57. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    Sturgill Simpson
58. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
59. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
60. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
61. Love King
    The-Dream
62. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
63. African Giant
    Burna Boy
64. Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1
    Lil Peep
65. Melodrama
    Lorde
66. Vibras
    J Balvin
67. We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
    John Maus
68. The Redeemer
    Dean Blunt
69. Journals
    Justin Bieber
70. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
71. Let England Shake
    PJ Harvey
72. Atma
    YOB
73. James Blake
    James Blake
74. Ice Cold Perm
    100s
75. This Is Happening
    LCD Soundsystem
76. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
77. Nonstop Feeling
    Turnstile
78. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
79. World War 3 (Lean)
    Gucci Mane
79. World War 3 (Gas)
    Gucci Mane
79. World War 3 (Molly)
    Gucci Mane
80. Henge Beat
    Total Control
81. Platform
    Holly Herndon
82. Psychic
    Darkside
83. Need to Feel Your Love
    Sheer Mag
84. The Pinkprint
    Nicki Minaj
85. Zip Files
    Wiley
86. LP1
    FKA twigs
87. Late Nights: The Album
    Jeremih
88. Dripping
    Pile
89. Lost in the Dream
    The War on Drugs
90. Swimming
    Mac Miller
91. Magma
    Gojira
92. American Drift
    Elysia Crampton
93. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
    Skrillex
94. Home, Like Noplace Is There
    The Hotelier
95. Floral Shoppe
    Macintosh Plus
96. Guilty of Everything
    Nothing
97. House of Sugar
    (Sandy) Alex G
98. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
    M83
99. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
100. King Night
     Salem

Literary Hub: The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s

[see also Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 • Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 • Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 • The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s • Favorite Books of 2018]

The Top Twenty

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  Michelle Alexander
• The Emperor of All Maladies

  A Biography of Cancer
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  Rebecca Skloot
• Bloodlands

  Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
  Timothy Snyder
• The Warmth of Other Suns

  The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  Isabel Wilkerson
• The Passage of Power

  The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  Robert A. Caro
• The Black Count

  Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo
  Tom Reiss
• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Invention of Nature

  Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
  Andrea Wulf
• The Witches

  Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
  Stacy Schiff
• Secondhand Time

  The Last of the Soviets
  Svetlana Alexievich
• Dark Money

  The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
  Jane Mayer
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
  David France
• The Other Slavery

  The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
  Andrés Reséndez
• All the Single Ladies

  Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
  Rebecca Traister
• Prairie Fires

  The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Caroline Fraser
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• Underland

  A Deep Time Journey
  Robert Macfarlane
• Say Nothing

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

Dissenting Opinions

• The Art of Cruelty

  A Reckoning
  Maggie Nelson
• The Beast

  Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
  Oscar Martinez
• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City
  Matthew Desmond
• The House of Government

  A Saga of the Russian Revolution
  Yuri Slezkine
• Ghosts of the Tsunami

  Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
  Richard Lloyd Parry
• How to Do Nothing

  Resisting the Attention Economy
  Jenny Odell

Honorable Mentions

• Country Driving

  A Chinese Road Trip
  Peter Hessler
• Washington

  A Life
  Ron Chernow
• Nothing to Envy

  Ordinary Lives in North Korea
  Barbara Demick
• Stranger Magic

  Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
  Marina Warner
• Thomas Jefferson

  The Art Of Power
  Jon Meacham
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
  Katherine Boo
• Madness, Rack, and Honey
  Mary Ruefle
• The Sports Gene

  Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
  David Epstein
• Five Days at Memorial

  Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
  Sheri Fink
• Thank You for Your Service
  David Finkel
• The Unwinding

  An Inner History of the New America
  George Packer
• This Changes Everything

  Capitalism vs. The Climate
  Naomi Klein
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write

  On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
  Sarah Ruhl
• The Trip to Echo Spring

  On Writers and Drinking
  Olivia Laing
• Penelope Fitzgerald

  A Life
  Hermione Lee
• SPQR

  A History of Ancient Rome
  Mary Beard
• Dreamland

  The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
  Sam Quinones
• Stamped from the Beginning

  The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  Ibram X. Kendi
• Shirley Jackson

  A Rather Haunted Life
  Ruth Franklin
• Strangers in Their Own Land

  Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Hidden Figures

  The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
  Margot Lee Shetterly
• Henry David Thoreau

  A Life
  Laura Dassow Walls
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Red at Heart

  How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
  Elizabeth McGuire
• The Evangelicals

  The Struggle to Shape America
  Frances FitzGerald
• The Road to Jonestown

  Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
  Jeff Guinn
• Krazy

  George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
  Michael Tisserand
• Chester B. Himes

  A Biography
  Lawrence P. Jackson
• Barracoon

  The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
  Zora Neale Hurston
• Dopesick

  Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
  Beth Macy
• American Prison

  A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
  Shane Bauer
• Amity and Prosperity

  One Family and the Fracturing of America
  Eliza Griswold
• The Tangled Tree

  A Radical New History of Life
  David Quammen

Karen Han: The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade, as published by Polygon

[see also 2019]

1. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
2. Take Shelter
   Jeff Nichols
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
   Tomas Alfredson
4. True Grit
   Joel & Ethan Coen
5. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
6. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
7. The Hateful Eight
   Quentin Tarantino
8. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
9. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
10. Paddington 2
    Paul King
10. A Cure for Wellness
    Gore Verbinski

Maggie Fremont: The Best TV Shows of the 2010s, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2020 • 2019]

1. The Americans
2. The Leftovers
3. Veep
4. Schitt's Creek
5. Fleabag
6. Jane the Virgin
7. The Good Place
8. Atlanta
9. Bob’s Burgers
10. Stranger Things
11. Rectify
12. Halt and Catch Fire
13. Catastrophe
14. BoJack Horseman
15. Game of Thrones
16. Broad City
17. The Good Fight
18. Better Call Saul
19. Succession
20. Queen Sugar

Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Yeezus
   Kanye West
3. Art Angels
   Grimes
4. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
   Kanye West
5. Blond
   Frank Ocean
6. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Beyoncé
   Beyoncé
8. Night Time, My Time
   Sky Ferreira
9. E•MO•TION
   Carly Rae Jepsen
10. Red
    Taylor Swift
11. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
12. This Is Happening
    LCD Soundsystem
13. Channel Orange
    Frank Ocean
14. The Suburbs
    Arcade Fire
15. Blackstar
    David Bowie
16. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
17. Melodrama
    Lorde
18. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
19. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
20. Body Talk
    Robyn
21. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
22. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
23. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
24. Lost in the Dream
    The War on Drugs
25. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
26. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
27. Puberty 2
    Mitski
28. Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent
29. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
30. Old
    Danny Brown
31. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
32. Teen Dream
    Beach House
33. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
34. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
35. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
36. LP1
    FKA twigs
37. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
38. Take Care
    Drake
39. Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom
40. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
41. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
42. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
43. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
44. Slowdive
    Slowdive
45. Daytona
    Pusha T
46. Anti
    Rihanna
47. Cerulean Salt
    Waxahatchee
48. Lush
    Snail Mail
49. Tomboy
    Panda Bear
50. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
51. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
52. Currents
    Tame Impala
53. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
54. The Monitor
    Titus Andronicus
55. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
56. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
57. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
58. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
59. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
60. The Epic
    Kamasi Washington
61. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
62. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
    M83
63. David Comes to Life
    Fucked Up
64. Cupid Deluxe
    Blood Orange
65. James Blake
    James Blake
66. Apocalypse, Girl
    Jenny Hval
67. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
68. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
69. 1989
    Taylor Swift
70. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
71. Double Negative
    Low
72. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
73. Vulnicura
    Björk
74. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
75. Pop 2
    Charli XCX
76. DSU
    (Sandy) Alex G
77. Ctrl
    SZA
78. Halcyon Digest
    Deerhunter
79. U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief
80. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
81. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
82. Slow Focus
    Fuck Buttons
83. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
84. Father of the Bride
    Vampire Weekend
85. Treats
    Sleigh Bells
86. The Outsiders
    Eric Church
87. Replica
    Oneohtrix Point Never
88. Slow Forever
    Cobalt
89. Tha Tour Part 1
    Rich Gang
90. Guppy
    Charly Bliss
91. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
92. Simple Songs
    Jim O’Rourke
93. Painted Shut
    Hop Along
94. Shrines
    Purity Ring
95. Civilian
    Wye Oak
96. I Want to Grow Up
    Colleen Green
97. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
98. The Dream Is Over
    PUP
99. Teens of Denial
    Car Seat Headrest
100. Pluto
     Future

Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2011]

1. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
2. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
3. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
   Kanye West
4. Melodrama
   Lorde
5. Modern Vampires of the City
   Vampire Weekend
6. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
7. Body Talk
   Robyn
8. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
9. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
10. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
11. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
12. Yeezus
    Kanye West
13. Currents
    Tame Impala
14. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
15. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
16. Lost in the Dream
    The War on Drugs
17. Blackstar
    David Bowie
18. The Suburbs
    Arcade Fire
19. 21
    Adele
20. Ctrl
    SZA
21. High Violet
    The National
22. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
23. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
24. 1989
    Taylor Swift
25. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
26. In Colour
    Jamie xx
27. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
28. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
    M83
29. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
30. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
31. This Is Happening
    LCD Soundsystem
32. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
33. Art Angels
    Grimes
34. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
35. Plastic Beach
    Gorillaz
36. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
37. Ultraviolence
    Lana Del Rey
38. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
39. Teen Dream
    Beach House
40. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
41. James Blake
    James Blake
42. Vulnicura
    Björk
43. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
44. Settle
    Disclosure
45. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
46. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
47. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
48. Cosmogramma
    Flying Lotus
49. Remind Me Tomorrow
    Sharon Van Etten
50. Watch the Throne
    Jay-Z and Kanye West
51. LEGACY! LEGACY!
    Jamila Woods
52. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
53. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
54. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
55. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
56. Blond
    Frank Ocean
57. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
58. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
59. The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    Titus Andronicus
60. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
61. Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom
62. Care for Me
    Saba
63. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
    Spiritualized
64. All Mirrors
    Angel Olsen
65. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
66. Joanne
    Lady Gaga
67. Trouble Will Find Me
    The National
68. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
69. After Laughter
    Paramore
70. Teenage Dream
    Katy Perry
71. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
72. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
73. LP1
    FKA twigs
74. Take Care
    Drake
75. Days Are Gone
    Haim
76. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
77. Halcyon Digest
    Deerhunter
78. Room 25
    Noname
79. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
80. Wasting Light
    Foo Fighters
81. Anti
    Rihanna
82. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
83. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
84. The Golden Age of Apocalypse
    Thundercat
85. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
86. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
87. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
88. After
    Lady Lamb
89. Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty
    Big Boi
90. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
91. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
92. Our Love
    Caribou
93. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
94. Bad as Me
    Tom Waits
95. Replica
    Oneohtrix Point Never
96. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
97. thank u, next
    Ariana Grande
98. Kaputt
    Destroyer
99. Silence Yourself
    Savages
100. Let England Shake
     PJ Harvey

RogerEbert.com: The Best Films of the 2010s

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1. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
2. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
5. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
   Martin Scorsese
7. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
8. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
10. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
11. The Social Network
    David Fincher
12. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
13. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
14. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
15. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
16. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
17. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
18. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
19. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
20. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
21. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
21. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
22. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
23. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
24. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
25. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater

Honorable Mentions

• Annihilation
  Alex Garland
• The Babadook
  Jennifer Kent
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Before Midnight
  Richard Linklater
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Blindspotting
  Carlos López Estrada
• Blue is the Warmest Color
  Abdellatif Kechiche
• A Bread Factory
  Patrick Wang
• Brooklyn
  John Crowley
• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• A Dangerous Method
  David Cronenberg
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Dogtooth
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Elle
  Paul Verhoeven
• Ex Machina
  Alex Garland
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Fences
  Denzel Washington
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Fruitvale Station
  Ryan Coogler
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Goodbye to Language
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Hidden Figures
  Theodore Melfi
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• La La Land
  Damien Chazelle
• The Last of the Unjust
  Claude Lanzmann
• The Love Witch
  Anna Biller
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Only Lovers Left Alive
  Jim Jarmusch
• Paterson
  Jim Jarmusch
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson
• Stories We Tell
  Sarah Polley
• Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Zero Dark Thirty
  Kathryn Bigelow