Year-End Lists

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

The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2019

[see also 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Brittany Howard — Jaime
2. Julia Jacklin — Crushing
3. Charli XCX — Charli
4. Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
5. Drugdealer — Raw Honey
6. Better Oblivion Community Center — Better Oblivion Community Center
7. Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
8. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
9. Kishi Bashi — Omoiyari
10. Faye Webster — Atlanta Millionaires Club
11. King Princess — Cheap Queen
12. Kevin Morby — Oh My God
13. FKA twigs — Magdalene
14. Solange — When I Get Home
15. Big Thief — Two Hands
16. Hand Habits — placeholder
17. Fruit Bats — Gold Past Life
18. Anderson .Paak — Ventura
19. Bedouine — Bird Songs of a Killjoy
20. Andrew Bird — My Finest Work Yet
21. Karen O & Danger Mouse — Lux Prima
22. Carly Rae Jepsen — Dedicated
23. Mark Ronson — Late Night Feelings
24. Maggie Rogers — Heard It In A Past Life
25. James Blake — Assume Form
26. Angelo De Augustine — Tomb
27. Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
28. Vampire Weekend — Father of the Bride
29. Angel Olsen — All Mirrors
30. SASAMI — SASAMI

The Wild Honey Pie: Top 50 Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Joanna Newsom — Have One On Me
2. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
3. Big Thief — Capacity
4. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
5. Beyoncé — Lemonade
6. Kishi Bashi — 151A
7. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
8. The National — High Violet
9. Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
10. Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
11. alt-J — An Awesome Wave
12. Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
13. Tame Impala — Currents
14. Rostam — Half-Light
15. Haim — Days Are Gone
16. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
17. Big Thief — Masterpiece
18. Grimes — Visions
19. Pinegrove — Cardinal
20. Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
21. Jamie xx — In Colour
22. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
23. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
24. Phoebe Bridgers — Stranger in the Alps
25. Sharon Van Etten — Are We There
26. Solange — A Seat at the Table
27. Julia Jacklin — Crushing
28. The War on Drugs — Lost in the Dream
29. Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
30. Solange — When I Get Home
31. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
32. Sylvan Esso — Sylvan Esso
33. St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
34. Jónsi — Go
35. Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
36. Beach House — Teen Dream
37. Gorillaz — Plastic Beach
38. Lorde — Pure Heroine
39. SZA — Ctrl
40. LCD Soundsystem — This Is Happening
41. Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
42. Henry Jamison — The Wilds
43. Tierra Whack — Whack World
44. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
45. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
46. Frankie Cosmos — Next Thing
47. The xx — Coexist
48. Drake — Nothing Was the Same
49. Arctic Monkeys — AM
50. Maggie Rogers — Heard It In A Past Life

Jim Harrington: 50 Best Albums of the Decade, as published by San Jose Mercury News

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Lorde — Pure Heroine
2. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
4. Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
5. Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
6. PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
7. Lorde — Melodrama
8. Beyoncé — Beyoncé
9. Eric Church — The Outsiders
10. Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
11. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
12. Miranda Lambert — The Weight of These Wings
13. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
14. Best Coast — California Nights
15. Chvrches — The Bones Of What You Believe
16. The War on Drugs — Lost in the Dream
17. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
18. Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
19. Beyoncé — Lemonade
20. Metallica — Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
21. Taylor Swift — Red
22. Lauren Daigle — Look Up Child
23. Beach House — Teen Dream
24. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Push the Sky Away
25. Maren Morris — Hero
26. Robyn — Body Talk
27. Black Sabbath — 13
28. Cowboy Junkies — All That Reckoning
29. J. Cole — Born Sinner
30. Carly Rae Jepsen — Kiss
31. Khalid — American Teen
32. Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
33. Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
34. David Bowie — Blackstar
35. Sturgill Simpson — Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
36. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
37. Bettie Serveert — Pharmacy of Love
38. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
39. Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
40. A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
41. Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
42. Björk — Vulnicura
43. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
44. Kanye West — Jesus Is King
45. Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
46. Eric Church — Chief
47. Sia — 1000 Forms of Fear
48. Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
49. Tame Impala — Lonerism
50. Haim — Days Are Gone

Karen Han: The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade, as published by Polygon

[see also 2019]

1. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
2. Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
4. True Grit — Joel & Ethan Coen
5. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
6. The Lost City of Z — James Gray
7. The Hateful Eight — Quentin Tarantino
8. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
9. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
10. Paddington 2 — Paul King
10. A Cure for Wellness — Gore Verbinski

Rolling Stone: The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s

1. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
2. The Social Network — David Fincher
3. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
4. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
5. Get Out — Jordan Peele
6. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
7. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
8. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
9. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
10. Carol — Todd Haynes
11. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
12. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
13. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
14. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
15. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
16. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
17. Winter's Bone — Debra Granik
18. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
19. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
20. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
21. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
22. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
23. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
24. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
25. Selma — Ava DuVernay
26. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
27. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
28. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
29. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
30. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
31. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
32. No — Pablo Larraín
33. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
34. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
35. Tangerine — Sean Baker
36. We Are the Best! — Lukas Moodysson
37. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
38. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
39. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
40. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
41. I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
42. Elena — Andrey Zvyagintsev
43. Amour — Michael Haneke
44. Hereditary — Ari Aster
45. Black Coal, Thin Ice — Diao Yinan
46. Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
47. Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
48. The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
49. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
50. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2019, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2018]

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
  Shoshana Zuboff
• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
  William Dalrymple
• Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• Girl, Woman, Other
  Bernardine Evaristo
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
  David Treuer
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
  Jenny Odell
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Lot
  Bryan Washington
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• The Orphan Master’s Son
  Adam Johnson
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Solitary
  Albert Woodfox
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• We Live in Water
  Jess Walter

For the Sports Fans

• A Different Way to Win: Dan Rooney's Story from the Super Bowl to the Rooney Rule
  Jim Rooney
• The Sixth Man
  Andre Iguodala

And here's a reminder of books I recommended earlier this year

• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson
• The Education of an Idealist
  Samantha Power
• Exhalation
  Ted Chiang
• Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
  Valerie Jarrett
• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• How to Read the Air
  Dinaw Mengestu
• Inland
  Téa Obreht
• Lab Girl
  Hope Jahren
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
  Stephanie Land
• Men Without Women
  Haruki Murakami
• The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
  Melinda Gates
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• The Shadow of Sirius
  W.S. Merwin
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
  Nicholas Carr
• Toni Morrison's collected works
• Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
  Susan Rice
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  Isabel Wilkerson
• Wolf Hall
  Hilary Mantel

Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2019, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2018]

• American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Amazing Grace — Sydney Pollack
• Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
• Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
• Atlantics — Mati Diop
• Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
• Diane — Kent Jones
• The Farewell — Lulu Wang
• Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold
• The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
• Just Mercy — Destin Daniel Cretton
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
• The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
• Transit — Christian Petzold

And a quick list of TV shows that I considered as powerful as movies

• Fleabag (season 2)
• Unbelievable
• Watchmen

Atwood Magazine: The Best Albums of the Decade

• Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• Bon Iver — Bon Iver
• Lady Gaga — Born This Way
• Tyler, The Creator — Goblin
• Of Monsters And Men — My Head is an Animal
• The Vaccines — What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
• Adele — 21
• Ed Sheeran — ÷
• Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
• Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
• Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
• The Lumineers — The Lumineers
• Arctic Monkeys — AM
• Beyoncé — Beyoncé
• Lorde — Pure Heroine
• Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
• The Wonder Years — The Greatest Generation
• Justin Timberlake — The 20/20 Experience
• Glass Animals — Zaba
• Sia — 1000 Forms of Fear
• Taylor Swift — 1989
• Troye Sivan — Blue Neighbourhood
• Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
• Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast — Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
• Jamie xx — In Colour
• Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
• David Bowie — Blackstar
• Beyoncé — Lemonade
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Nonagon Infinity
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
• Phoebe Bridgers — Stranger in the Alps
• Clairo — diary 001
• St. Vincent — MassEducation
• Mac Miller — Swimming
• Ariana Grande — thank u, next
• Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?