The best movies of 1998
Talking ants. Unlikely detectives. Pigs in the city. Shakespeare in love. In 1998, the movies found room for all of the…
The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time
For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That’s no exaggeration: The medium was…
The A.V. Club’s favorite comics of 2018 so far
Comic books provide infinite opportunities for creative expression in the interplay between text and artwork, and 2018…
The best TV of 2018 so far
Disappointing season of your favorite prestige drama got you down? Let down by the big sitcom revival that promised to…
The best films of 2018 so far
Conventional wisdom holds that the best movies of any given year tend to arrive sometime between Labor Day and…
The best albums of 2018 so far
As arbitrary as the demarcation of New Year’s Day is, it’s always thrilling to watch a new year in music take shape.…
The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2018 so far
Let’s face it: It was pretty much impossible for the games of 2018 to live up to the games of 2017. Like 2007, 1998,…
The A.V. Club’s favorite books of 2018 so far
The first half of 2018 has seen dozens of notable releases: Rachel Kushner’s follow-up to The Flamethrowers, Stephen…
The Simpsons vacation episodes, ranked
As it’s done with every other cornerstone of family sitcoms, The Simpsons has taken the vacation episode to new heights…
Celebrate Pride with 20 LGBTQ romances that don’t end in tragedy
In the beginning, there were no LGBTQ people in the movies—at least, not overtly so. A handful of provocative pre-Code…
The A.V. Club’s year in swag includes a finger and a KFC turntable
Every year The A.V. Club office is inundated with items promoting new TV shows, films, and the occasional book and…
The A.V. Club's favorite pieces from 2017
Here at The A.V. Club office, 2017 will go down as the year we grappled with covering a host of unpleasantries ranging…
A year in pans from our film critic
Bad movies can be torture to watch, but a blast to write about. Thankfully, the resulting pans can also be a lot of fun…
The best TV scenes of 2017
Television provides so many units in which to appreciate the medium’s annual output. A series can leap to the forefront…
In 2017, we had some bad news and some good news
No doubt you’re thinking, “How could there be anything good about the greasy roadkill stain that 2017 has left on the…
The 20 best films of 2017
2017 didn’t improve much on 2016. If anything, the horror and dread of last year only seemed to take root and blossom…
The best of film 2017: The ballots
Every December, when looking to survey the previous 12 months of movies, The A.V. Club consults its dream team: the…
The worst things on the internet in 2017
There were many things on the internet in 2017, some of which were very good! Dril is here, for example. Tom Hanks…
10 last-minute gift ideas that are all books you can buy the day before Christmas
Well, you’ve done it again. You’re a thoughtless piece of human garbage who couldn’t get your shit together enough to…
The best games you might have missed in 2017
A quick confession: I do not play a ton of indie games. Well, I do, but I don’t play them all the time. Like most…