Battlefield V, Mandy, and the best film scenes of 2018: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Monday

• The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2018
  
• The best films of 2018 that we didn’t review
  
• The Sicario Effect scrutinizes an Escobar cartel assassin for signs of any remorse
  

Tuesday

• The best punk and hardcore albums of 2018
  
• Fallout 76 is a waste of a perfectly good wasteland
  

Wednesday

• The A.V. Club’s 10 favorite books of 2018
  
• “Halleloo”—it’s The A.V. Club’s most anticipated TV of December
  
• A.V. Club readers name their favorite games of 2018
  
• Battlefield V’s campaign tries to argue that WWII had very fine people on both sides
  

Thursday

• The best TV title sequences of 2018
  
• The best country albums of 2018
  
• Spider-Man, Aquaman, Dick Cheney: It’s a month of heroes and villains at the multiplex
  

Friday

• Why are Hallmark Christmas movies so addictive?
  
• Marvel Battle Lines might as well just be an Unbeatable Squirrel Girl game
  
• Mandy looms, triumphantly bloody, over a year when action and horror fused
  
• What’s the best live show you saw in 2018?
  
• The best film scenes of 2018
  
• The Good Place, annotated: “Janet(s)”
  
• A-Sides: Stocking stuffers from Chance, Meek Mill’s triumphant return, Little Simz, and more