Year-End Lists

David Hudson: Favorite Films of 2019, as posted to Twitter with a list of additional films that he's looking forward to

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015]

1. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
2. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
3. Heimat is a Space in Time — Thomas Heise
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
5. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
6. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
7. Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
8. Shayne — Stephan Geene
9. Diane — Kent Jones
10. Climax — Gaspar Noé

Kimber Myers: Favorite Films by Women in 2019, as posted to Twitter in viewing order

• Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins — Janice Engel
• Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• The Breaker Upperers — Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek
• Fast Color — Julia Hart
• Sword of Trust — Lynn Shelton
• The Mustang — Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
• Captain Marvel — Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
• Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
• Island of the Hungry Ghosts — Gabrielle Brady
• Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• High Life — Claire Denis
• Clemency — Chinonye Chukwu
• Little Woods — Nia DaCosta
• Wild Nights with Emily — Madeleine Olnek
• Someone Great — Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
• Stray Dolls — Sonejuhi Sinha
• Good Posture — Dolly Wells
• The Weekend — Stella Meghie
• Late Night — Nisha Ganatra
• Always Be My Maybe — Nahnatchka Khan
• The Farewell — Lulu Wang
• The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
• American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Tigers Are Not Afraid — Issa López
• Sea Fever — Neasa Hardiman
• Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda
• Honey Boy — Alma Har'el
• Little Joe — Jessica Hausner
• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
• Greener Grass — Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe
• Queen & Slim — Melina Matsoukas
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
• Atlantics — Mati Diop

Jordan Cronk: Top 30 Albums of 2019, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Purple Mountains — Purple Mountains
2. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
3. Holly Herndon — PROTO
4. Oso Oso — basking in the glow
5. (Sandy) Alex G — House of Sugar
6. Kim Gordon — No Home Record
7. Default Genders — Main Pop Girl 2019
8. American Football — American Football (LP3)
9. Fennesz — Agora
10. Carl Stone — Baroo
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
12. Strange Ranger — Remembering the Rockets
13. Fire-Toolz — Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace)
14. Rap — Export
15. Jenny Hval — The Practice of Love
16. black midi — Schlagenheim
17. FKA twigs — Magdalene
18. Great Grandpa — Four of Arrows
19. Clairo — Immunity
20. Mount Eerie feat. Julie Doiron — Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2
21. Black Belt Eagle Scout — At the Party with My Brown Friends
22. Florist — Emily Alone
23. Bill Callahan — Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
24. 100 gecs — 1000 gecs
25. Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
25. Big Thief — Two Hands
26. Fontaines D.C. — Dogrel
27. Sandro Perri — Soft Landing
28. Sunn O))) — Life Metal
28. Sunn O))) — Pyroclasts
29. Floating Points — Crush
30. Lambchop — This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You)

Saige Walton: Favorite Films of 2019, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. High Life — Claire Denis
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
3. Midsommar (director's cut) — Ari Aster
4. Joker — Todd Phillips
5. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
6. Atlantics — Mati Diop
7. Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
8. Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
9. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum — Chad Stahelski
10. The Night Eats the World — Dominique Rocher

Tyler Andere: Favorite Albums of 2019, as posted to Medium in no particular order

• Hovvdy — Heavy Lifter
• Lomelda — M for Empathy
• Barrie — Happy to Be Here
• Emily Yacina — Remember the Silver
• Summer Walker — Over It
• Taylor Swift — Lover
• Caroline Polachek — Pang
• Vagabon — Vagabon
• Nina Keith — MARANASATI 19111
• R Beny — Echo's Verse
• Pamcy — Binibini
• Jay Som — Anak Ko
• Boy Scouts — Free Company
• Ana Roxanne — ~~~
• Ancient Pools — Cosine
• Solange — When I Get Home
• Toro y Moi — Outer Peace
• Julian Lynch — Rat’s Spit
• Salami Rose Joe Louis — Zdenka 2080
• Ruth Garbus — Kleinmeister
• Casey Golden — II
• Foxes In Fiction — Trillium Killer
• mei ehara — 私をしも
• Yohuna — Mirroring
• Hand Habits — placeholder

XXL: 50 of the Best Hop-Hop Projects of 2019

• YoungBoy Never Broke Again — AI YoungBoy 2
• Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats — Anger Management
• DaBaby — Baby on Baby
• Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana
• Sada Baby — Bartier Bounty
• Maxo Kream — Brandon Banks
• Shy Glizzy — Covered N Blood
• Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
• Juice WRLD — Death Race for Love
• GoldLink — Diaspora
• Polo G — Die a Legend
• Baby Keem — Die For My Bitch
• Jim Jones — El Capo
• Rapsody — Eve
• Boogie — Everythings for Sale
• Offset — Father of 4
• Megan Thee Stallion — Fever
• Kota the Friend — Foto
• Rod Wave — Ghetto Gospel
• Little Simz — GREY Area
• Quelle Chris — Guns
• Young M.A — Herstory in the Making
• Post Malone — Hollywood's Bleeding
• Doja Cat — Hot Pink
• Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
• IDK — Is He Real?
• DaBaby — KIRK
• Lil Keed — Long Live Mexico
• Little Brother — May the Lord Watch
• EarthGang — Mirrorland
• Gang Starr — One of the Best Yet
• Mustard — Perfect Ten
• Roddy Ricch — Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
• Rick Ross — Port of Miami 2
• Dave — Psychodrama
• Cam'ron — Purple Haze 2
• 2 Chainz — Rap or Go to the League
• Skyzoo & Pete Rock — Retropolitan
• Dreamville — Revenge of the Dreamers III
• Young Nudy & Pi'erre Bourne — Sli'merre
• Young Thug — So Much Fun
• YBN Cordae — The Lost Boy
• Benny the Butcher — The Plugs I Met
• Danny Brown — uknowhatimsayin¿
• Asian Da Brat — UNFUCCWITABLE
• Anderson .Paak — Ventura
• Wale — Wow... That's Crazy
• Griselda — WWCD
• Pivot Gang — You Can't Sit With Us
• Denzel Curry — ZUU

Revolt: 9 Top Hip Hop Albums of 2019

[see also 2018]

1. Rapsody — Eve
2. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana
3. Griselda — WWCD
4. DaBaby — Baby on Baby
5. YBN Cordae — The Lost Boy
6. EarthGang — Mirrorland
7. Little Brother — May the Lord Watch
8. Quelle Chris — Guns
9. Polo G — Die a Legend

Matt Patches: The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade, as published by Polygon

[see also 2019]

1. The Comedy — Rick Alverson
2. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
3. Kill List — Ben Wheatley
4. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
7. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — Isao Takahata
8. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
9. The Arbor — Clio Barnard
10. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine

David Morgan: The 10 Best Films of 2019, as posted by CBS News

[see also 2018]

1. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
2. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
3. 3 Faces — Jafar Panahi
4. Knives Out — Rian Johnson
5. For Sama — Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
6. Transit — Christian Petzold
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
8. Midsommar — Ari Aster
9. Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
10. Carmine Street Guitars — Ron Mann

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)

• Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
• Aquarela — Viktor Kosakovskiy
• Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
• Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
• Jojo Rabbit — Taika Waititi
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• Midnight Family — Luke Lorentzen
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
• Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar

Mixmag: The 72 Best Albums of the Decade 2010-2019, listed "in year-by-year order"

• Actress — Splazsh
• Skrillex — Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
• Rustie — Glass Swords
• SBTRKT — SBTRKT
• Kuedo — Severant
• Clams Casino — Instrumentals
• Roman Flügel — Fatty Folders
• Daphni — Jiaolong
• Martyn — Ghost People
• Jam City — Classical Curves
• Session Victim — The Haunted House of House
• Mala — Mala in Cuba
• Scuba — Personality
• Machinedrum — Vapor City
• Floorplan — Paradise
• DJ Rashad — Double Cup
• Kelela — Cut 4 Me
• Special Request — Soul Music
• Mr. G — Retrospective
• DJ Koze — Amygdala
• Daniel Avery — Drone Logic
• Logos — Cold Mission
• Disclosure — Settle
• Boards of Canada — Tomorrow’s Harvest
• Jon Hopkins — Immunity
• Kanye West — Yeezus
• James Holden — The Inheritors
• Toro y Moi — Anything In Return
• Dean Blunt — The Redeemer
• Mount Kimbie — Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
• FKA twigs — LP1
• DJ Spoko — War God
• Mr. Mitch — Parallel Memories
• Lenzman — Looking at the Stars
• Theo Parrish — American Intelligence
• Todd Terje — It’s Album Time
• Nozinja — Nozinja Lodge
• Jlin — Dark Energy
• Holly Herndon — Platform
• Ata Kak — Obaa Sima
• Ivy Lab — 20 / 20 Volume One
• DJ Richard — Grind
• KAYTRANADA — 99.9%
• Skepta — Konnichiwa
• ANOHNI — Hopelessness
• The Bug & Earth — Concrete Desert
• Peverelist — Tessellations
• J Hus — Common Sense
• Arca — Arca
• Sinjin Hawke — First Opus
• UMFANG — Symbolic Use of Light
• Octo Octa — Where Are We Going?
• Jana Rush — Pariah
• Karen Gwyer — Rembo
• Nidia — Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida
• Pan Daijing — Lack
• Bicep — Bicep
• Errorsmith — Superlative Fatigue
• Talamanca System — Talamanca System
• Tzusing — 東方不敗
• Shinichi Atobe — From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art
• Thundercat — Drunk
• Amp Fiddler — Amp Dog Knights
• Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
• Amnesia Scanner — Another Life
• Nines — Crop Circle
• Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
• Loraine James — For You and I
• Kornél Kovács — Stockholm Marathon
• Mc Yallah & Debmaster — Kubali
• Pelada — Movimiento Para Cambio
• Dj Python — Derretirse