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 ChristmasÂ
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…
The 20 worst films of 2017
Bad movies were the least of anyone’s problems in 2017. But at a time when art seems uniquely vital as a way to escape…
The best film scenes of 2017
Ryan Gosling slugging it out with Harrison Ford in a ballroom of holograms. Saoirse Ronan defiantly rolling out of a…
The A.V. Club’s 20 best TV shows of 2017
The A.V. Club’s picks for the top TV of 2017 carry with them a hint of escapism: otherworldly settings,…
The best TV of 2017: The ballots
In The A.V. Club’s attempt to carve the mountain of TV released in 2017 into a monument commemorating the year’s best…
The best video game levels of 2017
You’ve already heard from us about our favorite games, but we also wanted to dig deeper and applaud some of the most…
The best albums that didn’t make our best-albums list
As we said in our list of the Best Music Of 2017—as we say every year—winnowing all the thousands of albums that are…
The A.V. Club's favorite games of 2017
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through…
The best music of 2017: The ballots
In a year as full of outstanding music as 2017, best-of voting can be a difficult task, and the wide variety of…
The A.V. Club’s 20 best albums of 2017
There was too much to listen to in 2017—not just albums, of which there were once again thousands, a barrage of…
