Ebert’s Best Films
Roger Ebert’s best films of 2011.
A Year in Reading
The Millions year in reading.
Top Twenty Top Ten Commenters
The 20 unhappiest people you meet in the comments sections of year-end lists. [via]
6. The Read A Book Guy. “Not one of these movies is as good as reading a book.” On a list of books, by the way, he will say none of the books is as good as books used to be. He also hates Kindles, which he may or may not mention.
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10. Harry The Hipster-Hater, Who Really, Really Hates Hipsters. “This is all hipster music. I guess it’s okay for hipsters, but I’m not enough of a hipster to like hipster picks like this. Too bad I’m not hipster enough. Maybe I’d like it better if I were more of a hipster.” [His username: “notahipstersorry.”]
Give Me Something to Read
Give Me Something to Read’s best long reads of 2011. [via]
Miscellaneous Best Of Lists
Other 2011 best-of lists: Best of Longform.org, the Atlantic’s best TV episodes, the New Yorker’s best and worst scandals, Paste’s best viral videos and RWW’s epic tech fails.
Talk of the Town
Best of the New Yorker’s “Talk Of the Town” section in 2011.
Best New Blogs
Bygone Bureau’s best new blogs of 2011.
Pitchfork Lists
The Pitchfork lists have started with best music videos and worst album covers.
The Awl 2011 Song List
The Awl’s best favourite songs of 2011.
AV Club Best Music
AV Club’s best music of 2011. (And several AVC writer Spotify lists.)
TIME’s Top Ten of Everything
The TIME top ten of everything in 2011.
Denby’s List
David Denby’s favourite movies of 2011. (Denby is relevant right now because he broke the review embargo on Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and, coincidentally, I’ve finally started reading Snark
Paste Lists
More 2011 listings from Paste: Best songs, TV shows and comics.
SFJ Favourites
Sasha Frere-Jones’ favourite albums of 2011.
Worst Videos Ever
NME’s list of the 50 Worst Music Videos Ever contains some of the greatest music videos ever. It’s possibly the most poorly constructed list I’ve ever seen. They also kind of cheat by putting “Friday” in the top spot. [via]
