Year-End Lists

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

Best Film of 2018 Wall Street Journal: Joe Morgenstern

Music
Victory Lap - Nipsey Hussle

11 Best Rap Albums of 2018 Revolt

TV Shows

Best TV of 2018 Wall Street Journal: Dorothy Rabinowitz

Movies
Cold War - Pawel Pawlikowski

Best Films of 2018 AP: Lindsey Bahr

Movies
Burning - Lee Chang-dong

Best Films of 2018 AP: Jake Coyle

Movies

25 Best Films of 2018 Slant

TV Shows

Top 10 TV Shows of 2018 Mercury News

Movies
Roma - Alfonso Cuaron

Favorite Films of 2018 Baltimore Magazine: Max Weiss

Books
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston

Best Books of 2018 BuzzFeed

TV Shows

Best TV of 2018 Vox: Emily St. James

Movies

Best Movies of 2018 IndieWire Poll

Poetry

Best Poetry Collections of 2018 Chicago Tribune: Michael Robbins

Music
Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B

Best Albums of 2018 The Ringer

TV Shows

Best TV Shows of 2018 Variety: Caroline Framke

Movies

Top Ten Films of 2018 RogerEbert.com: Justine Smith

Movies
The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos

10 Best Films of 2018 Christy Lemire

Books
The Death of Mrs. Westaway - Ruth Ware

Best Books of 2018 Popsugar

Movies
Roma - Alfonso Cuaron

Top Ten Films of 2018 RogerEbert.com: Ben Kenigsberg

Movies

Top 20 Films of 2018 Jordan Cronk

Books

10 Best Books of 2018 Broadly: Laura Winnick

Music
Cocoa Sugar - Young Fathers

70 Best Albums of 2018 PopMatters

Movies
You Were Never Really Here - Lynne Ramsay

25 Best Films of 2018 The Playlist

Movies
First Reformed - Paul Schrader

Top Ten Films of 2018 RogerEbert.com: Sheila O’Malley

Music
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships - The 1975

Best Albums of the Year 2018 NME

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.