Year-End Lists

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

The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - Valerie June

NPR Music: Ann Powers Top 10 Albums of 2021

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

NPR Music: Marissa Lorusso Top 10 Albums of 2021

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Film Comment Poll: Florence Almozini Best Films of 2021

Reservation Dogs

Hollywood Reporter: Angie Han The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Fienberg The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Books of 2021

Glow On - Turnstile

Flood The Best Albums of 2021

Esquire The 50 Best Books of 2021

BBC Culture 10 Best Albums of 2021

West Side Story - Steven Spielberg

Slate: Dana Stevens The 10 Best Movies of 2021

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021

Aack Cast - Jamie Loftus

Vulture: Nicholas Quah The Best Podcasts of 2021

The Card Counter - Paul Schrader

Glenn Kenny Notable Film Releases of 2021

Violation - Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli

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

Belfast - Kenneth Branagh

RogerEbert.com: Jana Monji Top Ten Films of 2021

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

RogerEbert.com: Brian Tallerico Top Ten Films of 2021

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

RogerEbert.com: Ben Kenigsberg Top Ten Films of 2021

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

Spectrum Culture Best Films of 2021

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Good Morning America: Peter Travers 10 Best Movies of 2021

Little White Lies The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021

Fire - The Bug

Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan The Best Music of 2021

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

A.V. Club 15 Favorite Books of 2021

Matrix - Lauren Groff

Vulture: Hillary Kelly The Best Books of 2021

In Heaven - Strand of Oaks

Magnet Top 25 Albums of 2021