Year-End Lists

Adrian Spinelli: Best Albums of 2023, as published by The San Francisco Chronicle

[see also 2022]

• The Age of Pleasure
  Janelle Monáe
• 7 Estrelas quem arrancou o céu?
  Luiza Lian
• The Great Escape
  Larry June and the Alchemist
• Animals
  Kassa Overall
• Rat Saw God
  Wednesday
• I Hope You Can Forgive Me
  Madison McFerrin

Clarisse Loughrey: The Best Films of 2023, as published by The Independent, drawing from films released in the UK over the past year

[see also 2022 • 2021]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
4. Pearl
   Ti West
5. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
6. Babylon
   Damien Chazelle
7. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
8. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
9. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
10. Rotting in the Sun
    Sebastián Silva
11. Passages
    Ira Sachs
12. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
13. May December
    Todd Haynes
14. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
15. Reality
    Tina Satter

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2011]

1. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
2. That! Feels Good!
   Jessie Ware
3. the record
   boygenius
4. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
5. Water Made Us
   Jamila Woods
6. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
7. Jaguar II
   Victoria Monét
8. The Age of Pleasure
   Janelle Monáe
9. Fountain Baby
   Amaarae
10. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski

The Atlantic: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

• Succession
• Beef
• The Bear
• Abbott Elementary
• For All Mankind
• Dead Ringers
• The Curse
• Reservation Dogs
• Beckham
• Jeopardy! Masters
• Poker Face
• The Other Two
• The Golden Bachelor
• Slow Horses
• Fargo

RogerEbert.com: The 25 Best TV Series of 2023

[see also 2010s]

1. Succession
2. Reservation Dogs
3. The Last of Us
4. Beef
5. The Bear
6. Barry
7. Poker Face
8. I'm a Virgo
9. Dead Ringers
10. The Curse
11. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
12. Gen V
13. The Righteous Gemstones
14. A Small Light
15. Our Flag Means Death
16. Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
17. Dark Winds
18. Silo
19. Primo
20. Full Circle
21. Fargo
22. Killing It
23. Scavengers Reign
24. Rain Dogs
25. The Fall of the House of Usher

HuffPost: The 10 Best Podcasts We Listened To In 2023

[see also 2019]

• The Retrievals
• Strike Force Five
• Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Project Unabom
• The Scottie & Sylvia Show
• Safeword
• Maintenance Phase
• Wilder
• Field Trip
• Sold a Story

HuffPost: The Best TV Of 2023

[see also 2022]

• Beef
• Succession
• Jury Duty
• The Bear
• The Last of Us
• Reservation Dogs
• The Morning Show
• Shrinking
• Poker Face
• The Traitors
• Sex Education
• The Other Two
• Justified: City Primeval
• The Horror of Dolores Roach
• Survival of the Thickest
• Never Have I Ever
• Snowfall
• Abbott Elementary
• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
• Single Drunk Female
• 30 Coins
• Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
• Power Book III: Raising Kanan
• The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
• Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

HuffPost: The Best Albums Of 2023

• Jaguar II
  Victoria Monét
• This Is Why
  Paramore
• Messy
  Olivia Dean
• Snow Angel
  Reneé Rapp
• Special Occasion
  Emily King
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Unreal Unearth
  Hozier
• The Age of Pleasure
  Janelle Monáe
• Heaven
  Cleo Sol
• Scarlet
  Doja Cat
• Hood Hottest Princess
  Sexyy Red
• Lahai
  Sampha

Honorable mentions

• What I Didn't Tell You
  Coco Jones
• Zach Bryan
  Zach Bryan
• Kaytraminé
  Kaytraminé
• We Go Again
  Enny

Mara Davis: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by Paste Magazine

[see also 2022]

• The Girlfriends
• Think Twice: Michael Jackson
• The 13th Step
• Grapevine
• Scamanda
• Ghost Story
• Earwitness
• Weight For It
• Blind Plea
• The View: Behind the Table

Honorable Mentions

• 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
• The American Birding Podcast
• Critics at Large
• Endless Scroll
• Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy
• Maintenance Phase
• Normal Gossip
• Otherworld
• The Retrievals
• Slow Burn
• Too Far with Rachel Kaly and Robby Hoffman
• Unclear and Present Danger
• The Weekly Planet
• You Are Good

Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2023, as aired on Sound Opinions

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
2. the record
   boygenius
3. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
4. Heavy Heavy
   Young Fathers
5. Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again
   Lydia Loveless
6. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
   Jaimie Branch
7. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
8. Struggler
   Genesis Owusu
9. Raven
   Kelela
10. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
11. & the Charm
    Avalon Emerson
12. The Window
    Ratboys
13. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
14. Perspective
    Jlin
15. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
16. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
17. False Lankum
    Lankum
18. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
19. Art Dealers
    Low Cut Connie
20. Sea of Sorrow
    Tombstones in Their Eyes