Year-End Lists

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

Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator

The Best Albums of 2021 Variety: Jem Aswad

Doppelgangbanger - Cortney Lamar Charleston

The Best Poetry of 2021 Boston Globe

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

The Best Books of 2021 Boston Globe

Reservation Dogs

The 16 Best TV Shows of 2021 Atlantic

A Night of Knowing Nothing - Payal Kapadia

Top 10 Best Movies of 2021 Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips

The Lady and the Dale - Nick Cammilleri & Zackary Drucker

Best of TV 2021 Washington Post: Inkoo Kang

Parallel Mothers - Pedro Almodóvar

Best Movies of 2021 Washington Post: Ann Hornaday

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The 75 Best Albums of 2021 PopMatters

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

The Best Movies of 2021 The Ringer: Adam Nayman

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Best Movies of 2021 The Ringer: Sean Fennessey

For the First Time - Black Country, New Road

Albums of the Year 2021 Loud And Quiet

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

The Best Books of 2021 Slate: Laura Miller

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

The 10 Best Movies of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

Reservation Dogs

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021 Entertainment Weekly: Kristen Baldwin

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

The Best TV Shows of 2021 New Yorker: Doreen St. Félix

For All Mankind

The 20 Best TV Shows of 2021 Rolling Stone: Alan Sepinwall

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

The 25 Best Films Of 2021 The Playlist

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

20 Best Movies of 2021 Rolling Stone: David Fear

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Best Movies of 2021 Wall Street Journal: Joe Morgenstern

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Slant

Whole Lotta Red - Playboi Carti

Best Music of 2021 Washington Post: Chris Richards

Fatigue - L'Rain

Top 50 Albums of 2021 The Wire