Year-End Lists

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

Ed Gonzalez: Best Films of 2019, as published by Slant Magazine

[see also 2018, 2017, 2012, 2011]

1. Transit — Christian Petzold
2. Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
3. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
4. Black Mother — Khalik Allah
5. Ad Astra — James Gray
6. Peterloo — Mike Leigh
7. The Competition — Claire Simon
8. Ray & Liz — Richard Billingham
9. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
10. Climax — Gaspar Noé

Honorable Mention

• The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
• An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
• Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
• Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• End of the Century — Lucio Castro
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• The Gospel of Eureka — Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
• The Beach Bum — Harmony Korine
• Dragged Across Concrete — S. Craig Zahler
• The Plagiarists — Peter Parlow

Paste Magazine: The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Breaking Bad
2. Mad Men
3. The Americans
4. Blue Planet II
4. Planet Earth II
5. Fleabag
6. Adventure Time
7. The Good Place
8. Atlanta
9. Parks and Recreation
10. The Great British Bake Off
11. 30 Rock
12. Barry
13. Rectify
14. The Good Wife
15. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
16. Game of Thrones
17. The Crown
18. Bob’s Burgers
19. Justified
20. Stranger Things
21. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
22. Chernobyl
23. Better Call Saul
24. Catastrophe
25. When They See Us
26. My Mad Fat Diary
27. Hannibal
28. Key and Peele
29. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
30. Twin Peaks: The Return
31. Succession
32. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
33. BoJack Horseman
34. Veep
35. Legends of Tomorrow
36. Downton Abbey
37. The Night Manager
38. The Good Fight
39. Mozart in the Jungle
40. Review
41. Counterpart
42. Man Seeking Woman
43. The Leftovers
44. Community
45. Penny Dreadful
46. Boardwalk Empire
47. Broad City
48. Gravity Falls
49. Happy Valley
50. Killing Eve
51. Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
52. Halt and Catch Fire
53. Looking
54. Fargo
55. Russian Doll
56. Treme
57. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
58. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
59. Sherlock
60. Orphan Black
61. Rick and Morty
62. American Vandal
63. Downward Dog
64. Jane the Virgin
65. Terriers
66. In the Flesh
67. Doctor Who
68. Glow
69. Documentary Now!
70. Big Mouth
71. Outlander
72. Black-ish
73. Speechless
74. The Handmaid’s Tale
75. Queen Sugar
76. Happy Endings
77. Master of None
78. Detroiters
79. Steven Universe
80. Black Mirror
81. Better Things
82. One Day at a Time
83. The Expanse
84. Fringe
85. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
86. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
87. Westworld
88. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
89. Orange is the New Black
90. The Knick
91. Portlandia
92. Nathan for You
93. Pose
94. The Bold Type
95. Schitt's Creek
96. Grey's Anatomy
97. Eastbound & Down
98. Fresh Off the Boat
99. Silicon Valley
100. Parenthood

Keith Uhlich: Best Films of 2019, as published by Slant Magazine

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011]

1. Peterloo — Mike Leigh
2. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
3. La Flor — Mariano Llinás
4. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
5. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
6. Domino — Brian De Palma
7. The Gospel of Eureka — Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
8. Chained for Life — Aaron Schimberg
9. Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
10. Atlantics — Mati Diop

Honorable Mention

• The Dead Don't Die — Jim Jarmusch
• The Farewell — Lulu Wang
• Gemini Man — Ang Lee
• A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
• High Flying Bird — Steven Soderbergh
• Knives Out — Rian Johnson
• In Fabric — Peter Strickland
• Our Time — Carlos Reygadas
• Shadow — Zhang Yimou
• Transit — Christian Petzold

BuzzFeed: The 24 Best Books of the Decade

[see also 2019, 2018]

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  Isabel Wilkerson
• The Round House
  Louise Erdrich
• Building Stories
  Chris Ware
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from “Dear Sugar”
  Cheryl Strayed
• My Struggle (six volumes)
  Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Neapolitan Novels
  Elena Ferrante
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
  Andrew Solomon
• Wave
  Sonali Deraniyagala
• The Goldfinch
  Donna Tartt
• Annihilation
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Citizen: An American Lyric
  Claudia Rankine
• Station Eleven
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Dept. of Speculation
  Jenny Offill
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders
• The Argonauts
  Maggie Nelson
• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara
• Outline Trilogy
  Rachel Cusk
• One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
  Asne Seierstad
• Less
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Severance
  Ling Ma
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Conversations with Friends
  Sally Rooney
• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
  Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey