Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.
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Highlights

Books
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

The 5 Best Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Jessica Ferri

Music
Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood

TV Shows
Reservation Dogs

The 13 Best TV Shows of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Robert Lloyd

Music
Home Video - Lucy Dacus

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Bob Boilen

Movies
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Movies of 2021 Screen Slate: Chloe Lizotte

Movies
West Side Story - Steven Spielberg

Top 10 Movies of 2021 San Francisco Chronicle: Mick LaSalle

Music
Hey What - Low

Top 50 Albums of 2021 Beats Per Minute

Music
The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - Valerie June

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Ann Powers

Music
Glow On - Turnstile

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Marissa Lorusso

Movies
Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Films of 2021 Film Comment Poll: Florence Almozini

TV Shows
Reservation Dogs

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

TV Shows
The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

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

Books
Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

Music
Glow On - Turnstile

The Best Albums of 2021 Flood

Books

The 50 Best Books of 2021 Esquire

Music

10 Best Albums of 2021 BBC Culture

Movies
Parallel Mothers - Pedro Almodóvar

The 10 Best Movies of 2021 Slate: Dana Stevens

Podcasts
Twenty Thousand Hertz

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

Podcasts
Aack Cast - Jamie Loftus

The Best Podcasts of 2021 Vulture: Nicholas Quah

Movies
The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson

Notable Film Releases of 2021 Glenn Kenny

Movies
Violation - Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli

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

Movies
Belfast - Kenneth Branagh

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Jana Monji

Movies
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Brian Tallerico

Movies
Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Ben Kenigsberg

Movies
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

10 Best Movies of 2021 Good Morning America: Peter Travers

TV Shows

The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021 Little White Lies

Music
Fire - The Bug

The Best Music of 2021 Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan

Books
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

15 Favorite Books of 2021 A.V. Club

Books
Matrix - Lauren Groff

The Best Books of 2021 Vulture: Hillary Kelly

Music
In Heaven - Strand of Oaks

Top 25 Albums of 2021 Magnet

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

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Sheri Linden

Movies
Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Lovia Gyarkye

Movies
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Jon Frosch

Movies
Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Films of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: David Rooney

Movies
Bergman Island - Mia Hansen-Løve

The 21 Best Movies of 2021 Vox: Alissa Wilkinson

Movies
Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Tomris Laffly

Movies
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Susan Wloszczyna

Movies
Procession - Robert Greene

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Sheila O’Malley

Movies
The Green Knight - David Lowery

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Roxana Hadadi

Movies
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

The Ten Best Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com

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

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Odie Henderson

Movies
The Tragedy of Macbeth - Joel Coen

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Nell Minow

Movies
The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Monica Castillo

Movies
The Velvet Underground - Todd Haynes

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Matt Zoller Seitz

Movies
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time - Lili Horvát

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Marya E. Gates

Movies
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Kristy Puchko

Movies
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Christy Lemire

Movies
West Side Story - Steven Spielberg

Top Ten Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com: Abby Olcese

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