Psst—even if you don’t listen to electronic music, every record you’ve ever heard is electronic music. The truth of…

As usual, there was no shortage of worthy contenders for The A.V. Club’s list of the best movie scenes of the year.…

From one angle, the country music narrative in 2018 was distinguished by consistency. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia…

The state of opening credits and theme songs on TV in 2018 is one of contradictions: The 800-pound streaming gorilla in…

Death, art, cults, zombies—the year in literature was as eclectic as it was excellent. There were crimes in need of…

In 2018, the loose genre boundaries of punk and hardcore became more expansive than ever. For decades now, these…

If you watched every film The A.V. Club reviewed in 2018, you’d walk away with a fairly comprehensive grasp of the year…

The A.V. Club hasn’t traditionally structured its year-end round-up with some authoritative ranking, choosing instead…

2018’s best film music is about reinvention. We may be doomed to an endless parade of reboots, remakes, and sequels,…

Movie trailers can be misleading. Their primary function is to sell us something, to get asses in seats any way they…

In a year full of hate, there’s a lot of love in the world of comics. Romance is a shared theme among many of this…

No sane, decent person could get through this year without experiencing at least a few flashes of rage or despair. Both…

For the past three decades, Leonard Koren has been quietly publishing elegant, thoughtful books wherein he writes…

What scares you? It’s a question you know the answer to innately and immediately, as individualized as your…

Talking ants. Unlikely detectives. Pigs in the city. Shakespeare in love. In 1998, the movies found room for all of the…

For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That’s no exaggeration: The medium was…

Comic books provide infinite opportunities for creative expression in the interplay between text and artwork, and 2018…

Disappointing season of your favorite prestige drama got you down? Let down by the big sitcom revival that promised to…

Conventional wisdom holds that the best movies of any given year tend to arrive sometime between Labor Day and…

As arbitrary as the demarcation of New Year’s Day is, it’s always thrilling to watch a new year in music take shape.…