Year-End Lists

The Bitter Southerner: Best Southern Albums of 2023

[see also 2022]

1. Rustin' In The Rain
   Tyler Childers
2. This Is Why
   Paramore
3. Let's Start Here
   Lil Yachty
4. Michael
   Killer Mike
5. Time Ain't Accidental
   Jess Williamson
6. Zach Bryan
   Zach Bryan
7. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
8. Oh Me Oh My
   Lonnie Holley
9. Anarchist Gospel
   Sunny War
10. Come Back To Me
    Peter One
11. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
12. Bright as the Mines Out
    McKendrick Bearden
13. With A Hammer
    yaeji
14. Strays
    Margo Price
15. The Southern Suite
    Sean Mason
16. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
17. Proof of Life
    Joy Oladokun
18. Red Moon in Venus
    Kali Uchis
19. Health
    Medium Build
20. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe

American Songwriter: Top 17 Albums of 2023 in no particular order

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

• The Returner
  Allison Russell
• Chronicles of a Diamond
  Black Pumas
• The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  Mitski
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Who We Used to Be
  James Blunt
• Lover's Game
  The War and Treaty
• The Third Mind 2
  The Third Mind
• Leave The Light On
  Terry Klein
• Bits & Pieces
  Malcolm Holcombe
• Edge of Forever
  Jessi Colter
• History Books
  The Gaslight Anthem
• Brandy Clark
  Brandy Clark
• Unreal Unearth
  Hozier
• Brothers Osborne
  Brothers Osborne
• Man's a Wolf To Man
  Andy Taylor
• Autumn's Children
  Ashton Nyte
• Mother Road
  Grace Potter

Jessica Kiang: Top 50 Movies of 2023, as posted to Twitter in an epic thread with links to her (or others') reviews

[see also 2022]

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
2. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
3. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
4. The Delinquents
   Rodrigo Moreno
5. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
6. Tótem
   Lila Avilés
7. Past Lives
   Celine Song
8. Man in Black
   Wang Bing
9. Vera
   Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
10. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
11. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
12. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
13. The Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
14. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    Nicole Newnham
15. Sweet Dreams
    Ena Sendijarević
16. Passages
    Ira Sachs
17. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
18. Puan
    María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat
19. Here
    Bas Devos
20. Eileen
    William Oldroyd
21. Only the River Flows
    Wei Shujun
22. Afire
    Christian Petzold
23. Hollywoodgate
    Ibrahim Nash’at
24. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
25. Reality
    Tina Satter
26. Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
    Elene Naveriani
27. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
28. El Conde
    Pablo Larraín
29. House of the Seasons
    Jung Min Oh
30. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
31. Music
    Angela Schanelec
32. 12 Dares
    Izer Aliu
33. Daaaaaalí!
    Quentin Dupieux
34. A Strange Path
    Guto Parente
35. May December
    Todd Haynes
36. The Royal Hotel
    Kitty Green
37. The Shadowless Tower
    Zhang Lü
38. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
39. Inshallah a Boy
    Amjad Al Rasheed
40. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
41. About Dry Grasses
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
42. The Hypnosis
    Ernst De Geer
43. Goodbye Julia
    Mohamed Kordofani
44. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
45. City of Wind
    Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
46. Praying For Armageddon
    Tonje Hessen Schei and Michael Rowley
47. Birth/Rebirth
    Laura Moss
48. In Camera
    Naqqash Khalid
49. Achilles
    Farhad Delaram
50. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley

Unranked due to personal connections

• Fingernails
  Christos Nikou
• The Sweet East
  Sean Price Williams

Vanity Fair: The Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2022]

• Barry
• The Bear
• Blue Eye Samurai
• Cunk on Earth
• The Curse
• Dead Ringers
• The Devil's Plan
• For All Mankind
• Foundation
• Happy Valley
• The Other Two
• Party Down
• Perry Mason
• Poker Face
• Primo
• Reservation Dogs
• Somebody Somewhere
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
• Succession
• Survivor (season 45)

Kitty Empire: 10 Best Albums of 2023, as published by The Observer

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

1. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
2. Crazymad, for Me
   CMAT
3. 10,000 gecs
   100 gecs
4. Cacti
   Billy Nomates
5. The Age of Pleasure
   Janelle Monáe
6. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
7. Scaring the Hoes
   JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
8. Dead Meat
   The Tubs
9. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
   Jaimie Branch
10. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey

The Daily Beast: The 23 Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2017]

• Barry
• The Bear
• The Curse
• Dead Ringers
• Dreaming Whilst Black
• Fellow Travelers
• Full Circle
• The Horror of Dolores Roach
• How To with John Wilson
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake
• A Murder at the End of the World
• The Other Two
• Poker Face
• Reservation Dogs
• Scavengers Reign
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
• Somebody Somewhere
• Succession
• Swarm
• Top Chef: World All-Stars
• Velma
• What We Do in the Shadows

Nick Schager: The 10 Best Movies of 2023, as published by The Daily Beast

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

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
3. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
4. Perfect Days
   Wim Wenders
5. Beau Is Afraid
   Ari Aster
6. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
7. Afire
   Christian Petzold
8. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
   Frederick Wiseman
9. The Killer
   David Fincher
10. The Eternal Memory
    Maite Alberdi

Honorable mentions

• American Fiction
  Cord Jefferson
• Anatomy of a Fall
  Justine Triet
• De humani corporis fabrica
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Infinity Pool
  Brandon Cronenberg
• Personality Crisis: One Night Only
  Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi
• The Promised Land
  Nikolaj Arcel
• Sanctuary
  Zachary Wigon
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer

Vinyl Factory: Our Favourite Albums of 2023

[see also 2021]

• LXXXVIII
  Actress
• Aşk
  Altın Gün
• Maps
  Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
• the record
  boygenius
• Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
  Caroline Polachek
• The Shell That Speaks The Sea
  David Toop & Lawrence English
• Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
  Jaimie Branch
• Scaring the Hoes
  JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
• I've Got Me
  Joanna Sternberg
• Raven
  Kelela
• False Lankum
  Lankum
• Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
  Lana Del Rey
• Atlas
  Laurel Halo
• Oh Me Oh My
  Lonnie Holley
• Gentle Confrontation
  Loraine James
• Pripyat
  Marina Herlop
• The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  Mitski
• Calm Ya Farm
  The Murlocs
• Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
  Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
• 95 Mindjeres
  Nidia
• Sundial
  Noname
• Erotic Probiotic 2
  Nourished By Time
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Changing Channels
  Pangaea
• 12
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Madres
  Sofia Kourtesis
• Javelin
  Sufjan Stevens
• With A Hammer
  yaeji
• Heavy Heavy
  Young Fathers
• Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
  Yves Tumor

Uproxx: The Best TV Shows Of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2018]

1. Succession
2. The Bear
3. Reservation Dogs
4. Barry
5. The Righteous Gemstones
6. The Fall of the House of Usher
7. The Last of Us
8. Gen V
9. Silo
10. Poker Face
10. Shrinking

Honorable Mentions

• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• Yellowjackets
• Beef
• Blue Eye Samurai
• Jury Duty
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Swagger
• The Other Two
• The Golden Bachelor

Michael Sicinski: 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023, which he describes as "some of the experimental films and videos from this year that inspired, entertained, and challenged me in the course of my viewing"

[see also The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022 • The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s • Top 50 Films of 2018 • Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018 • Top 25 Films of 2017 • Top 10 Films of 2016 • Top 12 Films of 2014 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 12 Films of 2012]

• Ashes By Name Is Man
  Ewelina Rosinksa
• Color Negative
  Sara Sowell
• The Enlightenment
  Stephanie Barber
• Gush
  Fox Maxy
• Here & Elsewhere
  Bram Ruiter
• I Cannot Now Recall
  Kersti Jan Werdal
• If You Don't Watch the Way You Move
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• It follows It passes on
  Erica Sheu
• Laberint Sequences
  Blake Williams
• Let's Talk
  Simon Liu
• Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
  Tomonari Nishikawa
• The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings
  Damon Packard
• Muted Bridges
  Yan Wai Yin
• NYC RGB
  Viktoria Schmid
• Sea of Glass
  Francisco Rojas
• Shrooms
  Jorge Jácome
• Slow Shift
  Shambhavi Kaul
• Spark from a Falling Star
  Ross Meckfessel
• spoils
  Luciana Decker Orozco
• Stained Night
  Andrés Medina
• Sundown
  Steve Reinke
• Sunflower Siege Engine
  Sky Hopinka
• Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars'
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Trouble
  Miranda Pinnell
• We Don't Talk Like We Used To
  Joshua Gen Solondz