Year-End Lists

NME: The Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. the record
   boygenius
2. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
3. Heavy Heavy
   Young Fathers
4. Something to Give Each Other
   Troye Sivan
5. This Is Why
   Paramore
6. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
7. Madres
   Sofia Kourtesis
8. Fountain Baby
   Amaarae
9. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
10. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
11. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
12. In Times New Roman...
    Queens of the Stone Age
13. Mid Air
    Romy
14. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
15. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
16. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
17. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
18. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
19. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
20. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
21. Take Me Back to Eden
    Sleep Token
22. Blondshell
    Blondshell
23. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
24. With A Hammer
    yaeji
25. Gentle Confrontation
    Loraine James
26. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist
27. Michael
    Killer Mike
28. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
29. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
30. Unforgiven
    Le Sserafim
31. Kaytraminé
    Kaytraminé
32. Laugh Track
    The National
33. Bewitched
    Laufey
34. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
35. World's End FM
    Hak Baker
36. Black Rainbows
    Corinne Bailey Rae
37. Mid Air
    Paris Texas
38. D-DAY
    Agust D
39. Paint My Bedroom Black
    Holly Humberstone
40. Playing Robots into Heaven
    James Blake
41. Nails
    Benefits
42. 3D Country
    Geese
43. Hackney Diamonds
    The Rolling Stones
44. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
45. Messy
    Olivia Dean
46. Mañana Será Bonito
    Karol G
47. I've Ive
    Ive
48. Spunky!
    Grrrl Gang
49. Memento Mori
    Depeche Mode
50. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2023

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

1. May December
   Todd Haynes
2. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
4. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
5. Fallen Leaves
   Aki Kaurismäki
6. The Delinquents
   Rodrigo Moreno
7. About Dry Grasses
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
8. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
   Frederick Wiseman
9. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
10. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
11. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
12. Our Body
    Claire Simon
13. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
14. The Plains
    David Easteal
15. Afire
    Christian Petzold
16. The Killer
    David Fincher
17. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
18. Skinamarink
    Kyle Edward Ball
19. Passages
    Ira Sachs
20. Walk Up
    Hong Sang-soo
21. Love Life
    Kôji Fukada
22. The Outwaters
    Robbie Banfitch
23. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
24. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
25. Rotting in the Sun
    Sebastián Silva

Slant Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
2. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
3. That! Feels Good!
   Jessie Ware
4. Fountain Baby
   Amaarae
5. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
6. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
7. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
8. Raven
   Kelela
9. 10,000 gecs
   100 gecs
10. WOW
    Kate NV
11. the record
    boygenius
12. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
13. The Window
    Ratboys
14. The Loveliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
15. A Great Chaos
    Ken Carson
16. Gag Order
    Kesha
17. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
18. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
19. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
20. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
21. Like..?
    Ice Spice
22. Quest for Fire
    Skrillex
23. Fuse
    Everything but the Girl
24. 12
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
25. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
26. Strays
    Margo Price
27. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
28. Perspective
    Jlin
29. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
30. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
31. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
32. The Ones Ahead
    Beverly Glenn-Copeland
33. Wallsocket
    underscores
34. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
35. False Lankum
    Lankum
36. Perfect Picture
    Hannah Diamond
37. Space Heavy
    King Krule
38. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
39. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
40. Softscars
    yeule
41. Paranoia, Angels, True Love
    Christine and the Queens
42. With A Hammer
    yaeji
43. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
44. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
45. Blómi
    Susanne Sundfør
46. Red Moon in Venus
    Kali Uchis
47. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
48. Hit Parade
    Róisín Murphy
49. One Day
    Fucked Up
50. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e

Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, as published by Time Magazine

[see also The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021]

1. Some People Need Killing

   A Memoir of Murder in My Country
   Patricia Evangelista
2. Doppelganger

   A Trip into the Mirror World
   Naomi Klein
3. To Free the Captives

   A Plea for the American Soul
   Tracy K. Smith
4. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

   Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
   Nathan Thrall
5. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

   A Memoir
   Maggie Smith
6. How to Say Babylon

   A Memoir
   Safiya Sinclair
7. Poverty, by America
   Matthew Desmond
8. Liliana's Invincible Summer

   A Sister's Search for Justice
   Cristina Rivera Garza
9. Fire Weather

   A True Story from a Hotter World
   John Vaillant
10. King

    A Life
    Jonathan Eig

John Waters: Best Movies of 2023, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture with his brief thoughts on each one

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

1. Beau Is Afraid
   Ari Aster
2. A Prince
   Pierre Creton
3. Master Gardener
   Paul Schrader
4. Full Time
   Éric Gravel
5. Last Summer
   Catherine Breillat
6. Sparta
   Ulrich Seidl
7. Fallen Leaves
   Aki Kaurismäki
8. Strange Way of Life
   Pedro Almodóvar
9. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
10. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude

Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Movies of 2023

[see also 2021]

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. Past Lives
   Celine Song
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
4. Saltburn
   Emerald Fennell
5. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
   Kelly Fremon Craig
6. May December
   Todd Haynes
7. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
8. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
9. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
10. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig

David Sims: The 10 Best Films of 2023, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
3. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
4. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
5. Fallen Leaves
   Aki Kaurismäki
6. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
   Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
8. A Thousand and One
   A.V. Rockwell
9. The History of the Minnesota Vikings
   Jon Bois
10. Scrapper
    Charlotte Regan

Honorable Mentions

• Ferrari
  Michael Mann
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• The Holdovers
  Alexander Payne
• The Killer
  David Fincher
• Beau Is Afraid
  Ari Aster
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer
• Maestro
  Bradley Cooper
• BlackBerry
  Matt Johnson

Maureen Corrigan: Top 10 Books of 2023, as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air

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

Nonfiction

• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann

Fiction

• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• Up With the Sun
  Thomas Mallon
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• This Other Eden
  Paul Harding
• Absolution
  Alice McDermott
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres

Billboard: Best Albums of 2023, compiled by the magazine's staff

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
2. the record
   boygenius
3. Something to Give Each Other
   Troye Sivan
4. Zach Bryan
   Zach Bryan
5. Jaguar II
   Victoria Monét
6. Mañana Será Bonito
   Karol G
7. Scarlet
   Doja Cat
8. Let's Start Here
   Lil Yachty
9. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
10. Snow Angel
    Reneé Rapp
11. Génesis
    Peso Pluma
12. This Is Why
    Paramore
13. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
    Chappell Roan
14. Kaytraminé
    Kaytraminé
15. Raven
    Kelela
16. Endless Summer Vacation
    Miley Cyrus
17. Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana
    Bad Bunny
18. Like..?
    Ice Spice
19. Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good)
    Kelsea Ballerini
20. Barbie The Album
    various artists
21. Utopia
    Travis Scott
22. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
23. Desvelado
    Eslabon Armado
24. Good Riddance
    Gracie Abrams
25. Mid Air
    Romy
26. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
27. Unreal Unearth
    Hozier
28. Whitsitt Chapel
    Jelly Roll
29. How Do You Sleep at Night?
    Teezo Touchdown
30. Colmillo De Leche
    Carin Leon
31. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
32. One Thing at a Time
    Morgan Wallen
33. A Gift & a Curse
    Gunna
34. My 21st Century Blues
    Raye
35. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
36. Michael
    Killer Mike
37. Larger than Life
    Brent Faiyaz
38. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
39. Timeless
    Davido
40. Hood Hottest Princess
    Sexyy Red
41. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
42. My Soft Machine
    Arlo Parks
43. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Metro Boomin
44. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
45. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
46. Bewitched
    Laufey
47. Lover's Game
    The War and Treaty
48. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
49. Destiny
    DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ
50. For All the Dogs
    Drake

Chris Richards: The Best Albums of 2023, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2011]

1. Ulaan
   Enji
2. Ganger
   Veeze
3. A Great Chaos
   Ken Carson
4. Génesis
   Peso Pluma
5. Hood Hottest Princess
   Sexyy Red
6. trip9love...???
   Tirzah
7. Erotic Probiotic 2
   Nourished By Time
8. Härvest
   Poison Ruïn
9. Atlas
   Laurel Halo
10. Been Bout It
    WiFiGawd & GAWD