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news 20 maddening (and 5 alright) news stories from 2025
By Drew Gillis December 31, 2025 | 7:00am
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games Crosstalk: We argue it out over one of 2025’s biggest puzzles, the game Blue Prince
By William Hughes, Jacob Oller December 30, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Yes, The Testament Of Ann Lee is a musical—that's why it works
By Katie Rife December 30, 2025 | 12:00pm
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film Women finally took the lead in this year's depression movies
By Caroline Siede December 30, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Sam Eng talks Skate Story and New York City
By Bee Wertheimer December 30, 2025 | 7:00am
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aux Soul Music is a testament to the curious power of music
By Benjamin Cannon December 29, 2025 | 4:00pm
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film The wounds of America's past bleed into the present-day films of 2025
By Jesse Hassenger December 29, 2025 | 1:00pm
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tv Late night with the devil: How attacks on Kimmel and Colbert brought a fading format back to life
By Tim Lowery December 29, 2025 | 11:00am
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film Only Timothée Chalamet could play Marty Supreme
By Caroline Siede December 29, 2025 | 8:00am
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aux Wiki Wormhole wraps up 2025 with fish fraud, cat lawsuits, and Castro's love of ice cream
By Mike Vago December 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
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tv What's on TV this week—Stranger Things' finale and Together
By Christina Izzo December 28, 2025 | 8:00am
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film James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards
By Alex Lei December 26, 2025 | 2:00pm
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games Wario World shows both the best and worst of the Switch 2's GameCube library
By William Hughes December 26, 2025 | 10:00am
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aux AVQ&A: What's your 2025 pop culture gift to the world?
By A.V. Club Staff December 24, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Octopath Traveler 0 shows how to adapt and preserve mobile games
By Willa Rowe December 23, 2025 | 4:00pm
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film Avatar: Fire And Ash works best when it gets hot and bothered
By James Grebey December 23, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon finally welcomed the West to romantic action
By Caroline Siede December 22, 2025 | 4:00pm
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anime Despite critical and financial success, 2025 continued the anime industry's "profitless boom"
By Elijah Gonzalez December 22, 2025 | 2:00pm
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music Rhett Miller is "Cruel To Be Kind" in latest A.V. Undercover
By Danette Chavez December 22, 2025 | 1:00pm
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film Spoiler Space: James Cameron keeps upending what Avatar means
By Matt Schimkowitz December 22, 2025 | 12:00pm
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aux, books The year's biggest fantasy trend finally gives women swords
By Lacy Baugher Milas December 22, 2025 | 9:00am
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film In memoriam: 2025's cinematic obituaries mourned their losses before our eyes
By Jacob Oller December 22, 2025 | 5:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—The Copenhagen Test and more Stranger Things
By Christina Izzo December 21, 2025 | 8:00am
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games The best board games of 2025
By Keith Law December 20, 2025 | 12:00pm
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games Distracted gaming: Why nobody pays attention in multiplayer games anymore
By Bee Wertheimer December 20, 2025 | 8:00am
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film The best film scenes of 2025
By The A.V. Club December 19, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games With its "Weird Route," Deltarune finds a more mature take on gaming evil
By William Hughes December 19, 2025 | 1:00pm
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tv The best TV episodes of 2025
By A.V. Club Staff December 19, 2025 | 5:00am
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film Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war
By Autumn Wright December 18, 2025 | 3:00pm
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music OK Go helps us kick off A.V. Undercover season 10
By Danette Chavez December 18, 2025 | 1:01pm
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tv Elevated-trash TV found its footing in 2025
By Saloni Gajjar December 18, 2025 | 9:00am
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games The best games of 2025: The ballots
By A.V. Club Staff December 18, 2025 | 4:01am
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games The best games of 2025
By A.V. Club Staff December 18, 2025 | 4:00am
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music The only thing worse than bad AI music is good AI music
By Shannon Miller December 17, 2025 | 1:00pm
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film Pimping ain't easy in the music of Super Fly and The Mack
By Craig D. Lindsey December 17, 2025 | 10:00am
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film The best films of 2025: The ballots
By The A.V. Club December 17, 2025 | 4:01am
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film The 25 best films of 2025
By The A.V. Club December 17, 2025 | 4:00am
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games The Lynchian About Fishing reels in the dread beneath the familiar
By Dia Lacina December 16, 2025 | 5:00pm
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tv When did young, ambitious TV characters stop trying to be artists?
By Drew Gillis December 16, 2025 | 3:00pm
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aux Political symbols are everywhere now—on our streets and our screens
By Laura Zornosa December 16, 2025 | 2:00pm
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books The best comics of 2025
By Oliver Sava December 16, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv Changing the game: How Dropout broke through in 2025
By William Hughes December 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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tv The best TV shows of 2025
By A.V. Club Staff December 15, 2025 | 4:00am
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tv The best TV of 2025: The ballots
By A.V. Club Staff December 15, 2025 | 4:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—Fallout and Emily In Paris return
By Christina Izzo December 14, 2025 | 8:00am
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music Hayley Williams is independent and better than ever
By Matt Mitchell December 13, 2025 | 11:13pm
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games Metroid Prime 4 has too much talking for Samus to still be silent
By Maddy Myers December 12, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film Bad taste and moral panic are the lasting legacy of Silent Night, Deadly Night
By Greg Cwik December 12, 2025 | 12:00pm
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music Dropping Apple Music saved me from becoming a lean-back listener
By Matt Schimkowitz December 12, 2025 | 9:00am
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games There's not quite enough John Carpenter in John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
By Elijah Gonzalez December 12, 2025 | 6:00am
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games Once a novelty, full-motion video is now a useful tool for game designers
By Farouk Kannout December 11, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Hades II—and its heroine—asks why we fight for the status quo
By Madeline Blondeau December 11, 2025 | 9:00am
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tv Heated Rivalry raises the bar for queer sex on TV
By Hunter Ingram December 11, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv American mockumentaries somehow got both nicer and more realistic this year
By Saloni Gajjar December 10, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games After 20 years of airbending, Avatar Legends delivers the series' first good game
By Elijah Gonzalez December 10, 2025 | 11:00am
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film Cult Of Criterion: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
By Jacob Oller December 10, 2025 | 6:00am
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film Hollywood's gateways to horror are crumbling
By Trace Sauveur December 9, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film, tv The A.V. Club's guide to the best pop culture gifts of 2025
By A.V. Club Staff December 9, 2025 | 10:00am
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tv In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
By Mary Kate Carr December 9, 2025 | 7:00am
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anime This Monster Wants To Eat Me's sapphic horror delights in discomfort
By Elijah Gonzalez December 8, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film Bryan Fuller on his film debut Dust Bunny: "We've lost our appetite for bite"
By Jacob Oller December 8, 2025 | 9:00am
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aux 2025 was the year comedians defended comedy from itself
By Matt Schimkowitz December 8, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—Little Disasters and Wake Up Dead Man
By Christina Izzo December 7, 2025 | 8:00am
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film Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is the best and the worst of Quentin Tarantino
By Katie Rife December 5, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games 20 years ago, Animal Crossing: Wild World proved the series was here to stay
By Elijah Gonzalez December 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
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games What PAX Unplugged tells us about the future of tabletop gaming
By Cameron Kunzelman December 5, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Asbury Pines is the best-written idle game in nearly a decade
By William Hughes December 5, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv Maxton Hall helps fill a void left by The CW's YA dramas
By Saloni Gajjar December 4, 2025 | 3:00pm
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games Yakuza 0 Director's Cut makes a great game worse while erasing gaming history
By Elijah Gonzalez December 4, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Rereleased after 43 years, this infamous Atari 2600 game is a brutalist take on Pac-Man
By Garrett Martin December 4, 2025 | 11:00am
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aux Interstellar Arc takes you to the ends of the universe—and the limits of VR
By Garrett Martin December 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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anime Amazon's AI anime dubbing fiasco reminds us that voice actors are severely undervalued
By Elijah Gonzalez December 3, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv Queens of the desert—On the gloriously messy set of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans
By Katie Rife December 2, 2025 | 2:00pm
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games Scrabdackle turns a notebook into the best vehicle for discovery
By Wallace Truesdale December 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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anime With anime more popular than ever, it's time to go beyond shonen
By Farouk Kannout December 2, 2025 | 8:00am
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tv Eldest-daughter burnout is popping up everywhere in 2025
By Caroline Siede December 1, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in December 2025
By Jacob Oller December 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Netflix Party Games marks the streamer's latest unconvincing push into gaming
By Elijah Gonzalez December 1, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—The Abandons and Spartacus: House Of Ashur
By Christina Izzo November 30, 2025 | 8:00am
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games Dungeons & Dragons sticks to the Forgotten Realms with its two new Faerûn books
By Cameron Kunzelman November 28, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Spoiler Space: Wake Up Dead Man is a pleasure and (like all Knives Out films) a frustrating mystery
By Rory Doherty November 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
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film Hamlet becomes art therapy in the hands of 2025's films
By James Grebey November 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Kirby Air Riders is a so-so racing game, but a nifty little addiction
By William Hughes November 28, 2025 | 7:00am
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games Dispatch shows how player choice doesn't always work with telling a story
By Willa Rowe November 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
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anime Cracking Angel's Egg is a fool's errand, but let's try anyway
By Elijah Gonzalez November 27, 2025 | 12:00pm
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film C'mon Zootopia 2, let's stop with the conspiracy theorist heroes
By Matt Goldberg November 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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film It's time to give "On The Nature Of Daylight" a rest
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 27, 2025 | 7:00am
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games Board games are always on the table at PAX Unplugged
By Keith Law November 26, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv The Beast In Me, Task, and the thrill of TV's anti-whodunits
By Saloni Gajjar November 26, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Insert credit: Games still struggle to credit the people who actually make them
By Catherine Masters November 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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books 5 new comics to read in December, including Marvel's Ultimate Endgame
By Oliver Sava November 26, 2025 | 9:00am
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anime Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe on what it takes for art to "survive beyond"
By Elijah Gonzalez November 25, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games Keep Thanksgiving on track this year with these family-perfect multiplayer games
By Bee Wertheimer November 25, 2025 | 9:00am
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film December film preview: Avatar and Marty Supreme play ping-pong for the holiday crowd
By Matt Schimkowitz November 25, 2025 | 6:00am
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aux Podcast Canon: The enduring mystique of Starlee Kine's Mystery Show
By Benjamin Cannon November 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film Spoiler Space: Was Wicked changed for good?
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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games A quest for relevance: Dragon Quest's remakes search for the impact it had in the '80s
By Dia Lacina November 24, 2025 | 10:00am
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tv December 2025 TV preview: Fallout, Stranger Things' finale, and Taylor Swift
By A.V. Club Staff November 24, 2025 | 10:00am
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film Reluctant revolutionary Katniss Everdeen ignited a generation
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2025 | 7:00am
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aux Medieval Europe was fascinated by this Christian king in Central Asia
By Mike Vago November 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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tv What's on TV this week—Stranger Things' final season, Blossoms Shanghai
By Christina Izzo November 23, 2025 | 8:00am
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film Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
By Alex Lei November 21, 2025 | 4:00pm
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film Train Dreams stakes a complex claim in the Pacific Northwest cinematic canon
By Chase Hutchinson November 21, 2025 | 11:00am
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games Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
By William Hughes November 21, 2025 | 8:00am
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anime Netflix's The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity rejects toxic masculinity and chauvinism
By Elijah Gonzalez November 20, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Quincy Jones was at his peak when he gave The Wiz its soul
By Craig D. Lindsey November 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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games Dragon Quest VII Reimagined imagines a less bloated role-playing game
By Moises Taveras November 20, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Princess Zelda reckons with her legacy and reclaims her legend in Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment
By Madeline Blondeau November 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
