Year-End Lists

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

2023
May December - Todd Haynes

HuffPost: The Best Films Of 2023

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You - Caroline Polachek

DIY: Albums of the Year 2023

Hard Fork

Vogue: The Best Podcasts of 2023

Fountain Baby - Amaarae

Atlantic: Spencer Kornhaber: The 10 Best Albums of 2023

Screen Slate: Amy Taubin: Best Films of 2023

That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware

PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2023

Bunny - Beach Fossils

Northern Transmissions: Best Albums of 2023

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Raven Jackson

RogerEbert.com: Robert Daniels: Top Ten Films of 2023

Aquarium Drunkard: 2023 Year in Review

Saint Omer - Alice Diop

Sight & Sound Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Films of 2023

a.s.o. - a.s.o

The Fader: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli: 10 Best Books for 2023

Last Summer - Catherine Breillat

Sight & Sound Poll: Beatrice Loayza: Best Films of 2023

The Human Surge 3 - Eduardo Williams

Sight & Sound Poll: Erika Balsom: Best Films of 2023

The Window - Ratboys

Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Slate: Dana Stevens: The 10 Best Movies of 2023

Ghosts In The Burbs

Mashable: The Best Podcasts of 2023

Milk For Flowers - H. Hawkline

Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Reservation Dogs

New Yorker: Inkoo Kang: The Best TV Shows of 2023

Guts - Olivia Rodrigo

Slate: Carl Wilson: The 12 Best Albums of 2023

the record - boygenius

The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2023

Barbie - Greta Gerwig

Us Weekly: Mara Reinstein: Best Movies of 2023

Whiplash - Jobi Riccio

Stereogum: Marissa R. Moss: Best Country Albums of 2023

Poker Face

Slate: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023

Reservation Dogs

Slant: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2023

Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan

Variety: Owen Gleiberman: The Best Movies of 2023

Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos

Variety: Peter Debruge: The Best Movies of 2023

Cunk on Earth

Los Angeles Times: Robert Lloyd: The 14 Best New TV Shows of 2023

Reservation Dogs

Los Angeles Times: Lorraine Ali: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023

The Retrievals

Vulture: Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2023

Barbie - Greta Gerwig

Uproxx: The Best Movies Of 2023

From From - Monica Youn

New York Times: Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2023

All of Us Strangers - Andrew Haigh

Los Angeles Times: Justin Chang: The Best Movies of 2023

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Time: Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023

the record - boygenius

NME: The Best Albums of 2023

May December - Todd Haynes

Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2023

The Window - Ratboys

Josh Terry: The 60 Best Albums of 2023

Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd - Lana Del Rey

Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista

Time: Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023

Beau Is Afraid - Ari Aster

Vulture: John Waters: Best Movies of 2023

Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan

Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Movies of 2023

Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan

Atlantic: David Sims: The 10 Best Films of 2023

The Wager - David Grann

Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan: Top 10 Books of 2023

Guts - Olivia Rodrigo

Billboard: Best Albums of 2023

Ulaan - Enji

Washington Post: Chris Richards: The Best Albums of 2023

Entertainment Weekly: Kristen Baldwin: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023

SOS - SZA

Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood: The 20 Best Albums of 2023