Year-End Lists

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

Portico Quartet

Terrain
1. Albums of the Year 2021: Loud And Quiet
2. The 75 Best Albums of 2021: PopMatters
Portico Quartet

The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Southernmost Leo Boix
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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