December 23rd, 2024
As I remind you every year: lists are so stupid, and oh do I love lists.
These aren’t the “best” in the same way we rank athletes or products; these are the things that best captured my imagination, best dominated my conversations, best made me think and feel and moved my soul in every direction.
I managed to get my lists down to ten each, in alphabetical order, with the exception of comics, which I narrowed to twenty. (I read a lot of comics.) I have an asterisk next to A Complete Unknown because I’m seeing it soon, and if I don’t love it as much as I feel like I will I have a film to replace it.
Cannot WAIT to hear people complain about these! Let me know what you love!
Albums
Beyonce • Cowboy Carter
Charlie XCX • BRAT
JC Chasez • Playing With Fire
Landon Conrath • Employee of the Year
The Cure • Songs of a Lost World
Fontaines D.C. • Romance
Linkin Park • From Zero
Magdalena Bay • Imaginal Disk
Twenty One Pilots • Clancy
Waxahatchee • Tiger’s Blood
Comics
Animal Pound
The Cull
The Deviant
Fantastic Four
Feral
The Magic Order
Man’s Best
Moon Knight
Nightwing
Phoenix
Precious Metal
Public Domain
Radiant Black
Saga
Transformers
Uncanny X-Men
Void Rivals
Wonder Woman
World Tr33
X-Factor
Film
A Complete Unknown*
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Flow
The Greatest Night in Pop
Inside Out 2
Transformers One
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary
Television
Baby Reindeer
The Bear
Dune: Prophecy
Echo
Hacks
The Penguin
Nobody Wants This
Skeleton Crew
Somebody Somewhere
X-Men ’97
The Den 