Year-End Lists

Peter Debruge: The Best Films of 2019, as published by Variety

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Waves — Trey Edward Shults
2. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
3. Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
4. Diane — Kent Jones
5. Toy Story 4 — Josh Cooley
6. The Chambermaid — Lila Avilés
7. Woman at War — Benedikt Erlingsson
8. The Hottest August — Brett Story
9. I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
10. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller

Honorable mentions

• Greener Grass — Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe
• Midsommar — Ari Aster
• Our Time — Carlos Reygadas
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
• The Two Popes — Fernando Meirelles

Emily Nussbaum: The Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by The New Yorker with an essay amusingly titled "I Love Top Ten Lists"

[see also 2018, 2017]

• Fleabag
• Succession
• Los Espookys
• Watchmen
• BoJack Horseman
• Sherman's Showcase
• Jane the Virgin
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Dickinson
• Russian Doll
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• High Maintenance
• Unbelievable
• Couples Therapy
• PEN15
• Our Boys
• Evil
• Catastrophe
• Good Trouble
• Orange is the New Black

Honorable Mentions

• Tuca & Bertie
• Kim's Convenience
• Documentary Now!
• Glow
• Big Mouth
• Broad City
• Younger
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• The Other Two
• Shrill
• Fosse/Verdon
• Corporate
• South Side
• Veep
• BH90210

Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2019, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011, 2010s]

• The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
• The Dead Don't Die — Jim Jarmusch
• An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
• Us — Jordan Peele
• Coincoin and the Extra-Humans — Bruno Dumont
• Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• My First Film [live] — Zia Anger
• A Family Tour — Ying Liang
• One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
• Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
• The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman — Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
• Frankie — Ira Sachs
• Before Summer Ends — Maryam Goormaghtigh
• August at Akiko's — Christopher Makoto Yogi
• Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• Atlantics — Mati Diop
• Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
• Hotel by the River — Hong Sang-soo
• Chaos — Sara Fattahi
• The Competition — Claire Simon
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• The Pig — Mani Haghighi
• Burning Cane — Phillip Youmans
• Napalm — Claude Lanzmann
• Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda
• Chez jolie coiffure — Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
• Tux and Fanny — Albert Birney
• Harriet — Kasi Lemmons
• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• Ad Astra — James Gray
• Sword of Trust — Lynn Shelton
• Return to Bollene — Saïd Hamich
• High Flying Bird — Steven Soderbergh
• Black Mother — Khalik Allah
• Cassandro, the Exotico! — Marie Losier
• Chained for Life — Aaron Schimberg
• The Laundromat — Steven Soderbergh
• American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Waiting for the Barbarians — Eugène Green
• The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
• The Burial Of Kojo — Blitz Bazawule
• Two Plains & a Fancy — Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
• Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project — Matt Wolf
• Ghosts of Sugar Land — Bassam Tariq

Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2019

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010s]

1. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
2. Angel Olsen — All Mirrors
3. Purple Mountains — Purple Mountains
4. Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
5. Vampire Weekend — Father of the Bride
6. (Sandy) Alex G — House of Sugar
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
8. Great Grandpa — Four of Arrows
9. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal — Hiding Places
10. Fontaines D.C. — Dogrel
11. black midi — Schlagenheim
12. Charly Bliss — Young Enough
13. Holly Herndon — PROTO
14. Mannequin Pussy — Patience
15. FKA twigs — Magdalene
16. Jenny Hval — The Practice of Love
17. Weyes Blood — Titanic Rising
18. Denzel Curry — ZUU
19. Jessica Pratt — Quiet Signs
20. Polo G — Die a Legend
21. Cate Le Bon — Reward
22. Charli XCX — Charli
23. Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats — Anger Management
24. Florist — Emily Alone
25. Young Thug — So Much Fun
26. Empath — Active Listening: Night on Earth
27. 100 gecs — 1000 gecs
28. girlpool — What Chaos Is Imaginary
29. Control Top — Covert Contracts
30. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana
31. PUP — Morbid Stuff
32. Bill Callahan — Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
33. Better Oblivion Community Center — Better Oblivion Community Center
34. Ariana Grande — thank u, next
35. Abuse Of Power — What On Earth Can We Do
36. Hand Habits — placeholder
37. Jamila Woods — LEGACY! LEGACY!
38. Amygdala — Our Voices Will Soar Forever
39. Bon Iver — i,i
40. Danny Brown — uknowhatimsayin¿
41. Brutus — Nest
42. Oso Oso — basking in the glow
43. Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
44. Blood Incantation — Hidden History of the Human Race
45. Brittany Howard — Jaime
46. Solange — When I Get Home
47. Nilüfer Yanya — Miss Universe
48. Girl Band — The Talkies
49. Miranda Lambert — Wildcard
50. Greet Death — New Hell

Richard Lawson: The 10 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2010s]

1. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
3. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
4. The Farewell — Lulu Wang
5. Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
6. Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
7. Atlantics — Mati Diop
8. The Ground Beneath My Feet — Marie Kreutzer
9. Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
10. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie

Molly Young: The Best Books of 2019, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

1. The Topeka School
   Ben Lerner
2. In the Dream House
   Carmen Maria Machado
3. Stay and Fight
   Madeline ffitch
4. The Book of X
   Sarah Rose Etter
5. Oval
   Elvia Wilk
6. Vernon Subutex One
   Virginie Despentes
7. Trust Exercise
   Susan Choi
8. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
   Jenny Odell
9. Machines Like Me
   Ian McEwan
10. Doxology
    Nell Zink

Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2019, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Wilco — Ode to Joy
2. Solange — When I Get Home
3. Vampire Weekend — Father of the Bride
4. FKA twigs — Magdalene
5. Brittany Howard — Jaime
6. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana
7. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
8. The Highwomen — The Highwomen
9. Sturgill Simpson — Sound & Fury
10. Griselda — WWCD

Entropy: Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Time
   Etel Adnan
2. A Sand Book
   Ariana Reines
3. Our Weather Our Sea
   Samuel Ace
4. Soft Science
   Franny Choi
5. Careen
   Grace Shuyi Liew
6. A Fortune for Your Disaster
   Hanif Abdurraqib
7. Grief Sequence
   Prageeta Sharma
8. Advantages of Being Evergreen
   Oliver Baez Bendorf
9. Near, At
   Jennifer Soong
10. Syncope
    Asiya Wadud
11. Deaf Republic
    Ilya Kaminsky
12. Magical Negro
    Morgan Parker
13. Invasive species
    Marwa Helal
14. Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash.
    Samuel Ace / Linda Smukler
15. Dunce
    Mary Ruefle
16. The Tradition
    Jericho Brown
17. Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart
    Moina Pam Dick
18. All That Beauty
    Fred Moten
19. Casting Deep Shade: An Amble
    C.D. Wright
20. Be Recorder
    Carmen Giménez Smith
21. Furthest Ecology
    Adam Fagin
22. The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
    Magdalena Zurawski
23. The Year of Blue Water
    Yanyi
24. Oculus
    Sally Wen Mao
25. Feed
    Tommy Pico
26. EXTRATRANSMISSION
    Andrea Abi-Karam
27. Hall of Waters
    Berry Grass
28. Oceanic
    Aimee Nezhukumatathil
29. Blood Box
    Zefyr Lisowski
30. Mitochondrial Night
    Ed Bok Lee
31. Doomstead Days
    Brian Teare
32. Austerity
    Marion Bell
33. Brute
    Emily Skaja
34. Losing Miami
    Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
35. What I Knew
    Eleni Sikelianos
36. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
    Jake Skeets
37. Space Struck
    Paige Lewis
38. Street Gloss
    Brent Armendinger
39. What's in a Name
    Ana Luísa Amaral
40. HoodWitch
    Faylita Hicks
41. Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff
    Sara Borjas
42. Let It Ride
    Timothy Liu
43. Hysteria
    Kim Yideum
44. Several Rotations
    Jesse Seldess
45. Knitting the Fog
    Claudia D. Hernández
46. Personal Volcano
    Laura Moriarty
47. Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?
    Kim Eon Hee
48. (the Other House)
    Rocio Carlos
49. while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
    Raquel Salas Rivera
50. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin
    Rebecca Foust

Susannah Gruder: Best Movies of the 2010s, as posted to Letterboxd

1. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
2. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
3. I Am Love — Luca Guadagnino
4. In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
5. In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
6. Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
7. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
8. Christine — Antonio Campos
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
10. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
11. Take This Waltz — Sarah Polley
12. The Love Witch — Anna Biller
13. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
14. Greenberg — Noah Baumbach
15. The Wonders — Alice Rohrwacher
16. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
17. Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
18. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
19. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
20. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
21. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
22. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
23. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
24. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
25. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
26. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
27. Another Earth — Mike Cahill
28. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
29. The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
30. The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
31. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
32. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
33. Barbara — Christian Petzold
34. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
35. Us — Jordan Peele
36. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
37. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
38. Carol — Todd Haynes
39. Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
40. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
41. Amour — Michael Haneke
42. The Witch — Robert Eggers
43. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
44. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
45. Hereditary — Ari Aster
46. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter — David Zellner
47. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
48. Get Out — Jordan Peele
49. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
50. Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas

Alan Sepinwall: 50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. The Leftovers
2. Parks and Recreation
3. Breaking Bad
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Fleabag
6. The Americans
7. Atlanta
8. Justified
9. Rectify
10. Better Things
11. Better Call Saul
12. Terriers
13. Community
14. Twin Peaks: The Return
15. Game of Thrones
16. Fargo
17. Hannibal
18. Halt and Catch Fire
19. Bob’s Burgers
20. Review
21. Orange is the New Black
22. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
23. Brockmire
24. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
25. Watchmen
26. Boardwalk Empire
27. Veep
28. Broad City
29. Treme
30. Enlightened
31. The Good Place
32. Catastrophe
33. Key and Peele
34. The Deuce
35. The Legend of Korra
36. You’re the Worst
37. Master of None
38. Pose
39. Girls
40. Steven Universe
41. Mr. Robot
42. Transparent
43. Gravity Falls
44. Jane the Virgin
45. Parenthood
46. New Girl
47. Men of a Certain Age
48. Banshee
49. Baskets
50. The Good Wife