Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

The 50 Best Books of 2021 Esquire

10 Best Albums of 2021 BBC Culture

West Side Story - Steven Spielberg

The 10 Best Movies of 2021 Slate: Dana Stevens

Twenty Thousand Hertz

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

Aack Cast - Jamie Loftus

The Best Podcasts of 2021 Vulture: Nicholas Quah

Bergman Island - Mia Hansen-Løve

Notable Film Releases of 2021 Glenn Kenny

Violation - Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Mary Beth McAndrews

Belfast - Kenneth Branagh

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Jana Monji

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Brian Tallerico

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Ben Kenigsberg

Petite Maman - Céline Sciamma

Best Films of 2021 Spectrum Culture

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

10 Best Movies of 2021 Good Morning America: Peter Travers

The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021 Little White Lies

Fire - The Bug

The Best Music of 2021 Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

15 Favorite Books of 2021 A.V. Club

Matrix - Lauren Groff

The Best Books of 2021 Vulture: Hillary Kelly

In Heaven - Strand of Oaks

Top 25 Albums of 2021 Magnet

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Questlove

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Sheri Linden

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Lovia Gyarkye

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Jon Frosch

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: David Rooney

Bergman Island - Mia Hansen-Løve

The 21 Best Movies of 2021 Vox: Alissa Wilkinson

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Tomris Laffly

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Susan Wloszczyna