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tv The A.V. Club's most anticipated TV shows of 2026
By Saloni Gajjar January 5, 2026 | 6:00am
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music The 25 best Stranger Things needle drops, ranked
By Matt Mitchell January 4, 2026 | 1:30pm
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tv What's on TV this week—The Pitt and Best Medicine
By Christina Izzo January 4, 2026 | 8:00am
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tv Kumail Nanjiani to star on next season of U.K. panel show fave Taskmaster
By William Hughes January 3, 2026 | 7:03pm
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tv Sudden invasion gives CBS Evening News chance to start loving America two days early
By William Hughes January 3, 2026 | 6:15pm
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tv Mike Flanagan says he "can't" let 2017's Dark Tower be "final word" on Stephen King series
By William Hughes January 3, 2026 | 5:29pm
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film Nation's defeated theater owners okay "Screw it, bring in your own 5-gallon bucket" popcorn promo
By William Hughes January 3, 2026 | 3:43pm
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music Is Trump's weird obsession with "Fortunate Son" trolling, stupidity, or both?
By William Hughes January 3, 2026 | 2:48pm
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music Time Capsule: Lisa Germano, Geek the Girl
By Casey Epstein-Gross January 3, 2026 | 1:05pm
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tv Stephen Colbert's big life lesson for 2026: "Don't trust billionaires"
By William Hughes January 2, 2026 | 10:41pm
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tv CBS News just loves America!
By William Hughes January 2, 2026 | 8:26pm
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music Drake accused of inflating play counts on streamers in online gambling RICO suit
By Matt Schimkowitz January 2, 2026 | 8:10pm
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music Wicked's Stephen Schwartz also won't appear at Trump's Kennedy Center
By William Hughes January 2, 2026 | 6:44pm
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film Netflix reportedly wants a 17-day theatrical window for WB releases
By Matt Schimkowitz January 2, 2026 | 6:28pm
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aux Even Grok is pretty grossed out by some of the images Grok has been putting out lately
By William Hughes January 2, 2026 | 5:51pm
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tv Duffer brothers tease a rocking Stranger Things spin-off
By Matt Schimkowitz January 2, 2026 | 4:50pm
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tv The MCU tackles "superhero fatigue" head-on in new Wonder Man trailer
By Garrett Martin January 2, 2026 | 3:18pm
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music 5 songs you need to hear this week (January 2, 2026)
By Matt Mitchell January 2, 2026 | 3:00pm
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tv It's time to meet The Muppet Show revival teaser
By Matt Schimkowitz January 2, 2026 | 2:18pm
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film Two historical Christian musicals are in theaters, but only one seems to have faith
By Luke Hicks January 2, 2026 | 2:00pm
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news Will Smith sued for sexual harassment, wrongful termination by tour violinist
By Matt Schimkowitz January 2, 2026 | 1:33pm
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tv Fox's Best Medicine has some unpleasant side effects
By Brian Tallerico January 2, 2026 | 12:00pm
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tv Stranger Things ends with a whimper instead of a bang
By Saloni Gajjar January 2, 2026 | 11:55am
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anime Gachiakuta trashes battle-shonen niceties in a strong debut season
By Elijah Gonzalez January 2, 2026 | 10:00am
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games Octopath Traveler 0 shows the sweeter side of having a doomed hometown
By William Hughes January 2, 2026 | 8:00am
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film The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in January 2026
By Jacob Oller January 1, 2026 | 11:00am
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music How time became the secret ingredient of life in Daniel Lopatin’s Marty Supreme score
By Sam Rosenberg January 1, 2026 | 9:00am
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news Happy New Year from The A.V. Club
By Drew Gillis January 1, 2026 | 7:00am
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film Zootopia 2 is now Walt Disney Animation's highest-grossing movie ever
By William Hughes December 31, 2025 | 11:51pm
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film Read This: How MUBI has been operating in the wake of its big nasty funding controversy
By William Hughes December 31, 2025 | 9:29pm
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film Female-directed films reached a seven-year low in 2025
By Matt Schimkowitz December 31, 2025 | 7:42pm
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tv Polite man Jesse Plemons still very diplomatic about Friday Night Lights' Landry murder plot
By William Hughes December 31, 2025 | 6:26pm
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film Timothée Chalamet refused to use a stunt butt for very real Marty Supreme paddling
By Matt Schimkowitz December 31, 2025 | 6:12pm
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film Indiana Jones stunt show worker recovering after protecting crowd from runaway boulder
By Matt Schimkowitz December 31, 2025 | 4:49pm
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games 25 years ago Sega finally figured out the internet with Phantasy Star Online
By Marc Normandin December 31, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film Conan O'Brien imagines Paul Rudd playing Mac & Me clip to his deathbed
By Matt Schimkowitz December 31, 2025 | 2:52pm
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film, games, music, tv The best of The A.V. Club: Our favorite pieces from 2025
By Danette Chavez December 31, 2025 | 2:43pm
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tv 2025 Kennedy Center honors hit record low viewership with President Ratings at helm
By Matt Schimkowitz December 31, 2025 | 1:49pm
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music CMAT is "The People's Mess," baby
By Elise Soutar December 31, 2025 | 12:00pm
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aux RIP MTV: The 9 music videos that defined the network & reshaped the culture
By Scarlett Harris December 31, 2025 | 11:56am
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music No Album Left Behind: Armand Hammer’s Mercy finds meaning in the quiet work of staying human
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film Daisy Ridley finds something to live for in the contemplative zombie movie We Bury The Dead
By Tara Bennett December 31, 2025 | 11:00am
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aux In 2025, IP fully conquered the theme park
By Garrett Martin December 31, 2025 | 9:00am
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music Every #1 hit song from 2015 ranked worst to best
By Matt Mitchell December 31, 2025 | 9:00am
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aux The Scottish Poet Who Gave Us 'Auld Lang Syne' Was Kind of a Dick
By Danielle Han December 31, 2025 | 8:00am
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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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tv Fallout summons a Legion of guest stars for the season's most focused episode yet
By William Hughes December 31, 2025 | 3:00am
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film R.I.P. Isiah Whitlock Jr., beloved character actor from The Wire, Veep, and Da 5 Bloods
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 8:01pm
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tv Keep Yvette Nicole Brown's name out your mouth
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 5:56pm
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tv George Clooney wishes good night and good luck to journalism because "Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS"
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 4:13pm
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film Thor preps for Avengers: Doomsday in Marvel's latest teaser
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 2:37pm
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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 Great job, Internet!: Wake Up, Dead Man, Rian Johnson just Rickrolled us
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 1:05pm
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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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music Blink during Eddington and you’ll miss one of the year’s best needle drops
By Matt Mitchell December 30, 2025 | 12:00pm
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music The 20 best K-pop songs of 2025
By Kayti Burt December 30, 2025 | 11:00am
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tv Harrison Ford and Jason Segel are back in session in Shrinking season 3 trailer
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 10:00am
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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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tv Eleven must fight one more time for the fifth time in Stranger Things 5 finale trailer
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 9:00am
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music No Album Left Behind: Racing Mount Pleasant change their name and make a sprawling, intimate re-introduction
By Ben Jardine December 30, 2025 | 9:00am
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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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tv Diddy's sons are joining the Diddy Docuseries Universe
By Matt Schimkowitz December 30, 2025 | 12:12am
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film Ryan Coogler was "absolutely not" allowed to use Kraven for Black Panther
By Matt Schimkowitz December 29, 2025 | 8:12pm
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film Culturally irrelevant Avatar series made for another blue Christmas at the box office
By Matt Schimkowitz December 29, 2025 | 6:21pm
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music Chappell Roan disappointed to learn second fact about Brigitte Bardot
By Drew Gillis December 29, 2025 | 4:35pm
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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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anime Spy X Family remains a master of disguise in a genre-blending third season
By Elijah Gonzalez December 29, 2025 | 2:00pm
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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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tv Malcolm can't hide from his family anymore in Life's Still Unfair teaser
By Drew Gillis December 29, 2025 | 11:00am
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film, music, news Brigitte Bardot, icon of French culture, dies at 91
By Drew Gillis December 29, 2025 | 10:24am
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music Ludwig Göransson on making a surreal blues tribute for Sinners
By Sam Rosenberg December 29, 2025 | 9:00am
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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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music Every #1 hit song from 2005 ranked worst to best
By Matt Mitchell December 28, 2025 | 9:00am
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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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tv Chevy Chase spent 8 days in a coma, suffered memory loss after heart failure in 2021
By William Hughes December 27, 2025 | 8:09pm
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film Great Job, Internet!: Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are adorable in the Criterion Closet
By William Hughes December 27, 2025 | 7:02pm
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film Zack Snyder finally shows Henry Cavill's Superman in his little red shorts
By William Hughes December 27, 2025 | 5:51pm
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music Trump Kennedy Center already resorting to suing artists to make them show up
By William Hughes December 27, 2025 | 4:05pm
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film James Cameron will finish Avatar's story via press conference if he has to, damn it
By William Hughes December 27, 2025 | 2:33pm
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music Time Capsule: George Benson, Give Me the Night
By Matt Mitchell December 27, 2025 | 9:00am
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film Disney becomes first studio since 2019 to break $6 billion at the box office
By William Hughes December 26, 2025 | 5:54pm
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film Nicolas Cage scribbles up an impression in the first Madden trailer
By William Hughes December 26, 2025 | 5:16pm
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news Tyler Perry faces new lawsuit for sexual assault
By Drew Gillis December 26, 2025 | 4:41pm
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tv It's going to be a while before there's another season of Pluribus
By Drew Gillis December 26, 2025 | 3:50pm
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music No Album Left Behind: Maria Somerville’s Luster is a transient, indescribable pathway
By Caroline Nieto December 26, 2025 | 2:00pm
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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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music The 15 worst albums of 2025
By Paste Staff December 26, 2025 | 12:40pm
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news Nicole Kidman, Patron Saint of Thriving After a Divorce
By Lauren Tousignant December 26, 2025 | 12:34pm
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tv Spy drama The Copenhagen Test is heavy on twists and light on coherence
By Saloni Gajjar December 26, 2025 | 12:00pm
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news Read this: Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner
By Drew Gillis December 26, 2025 | 10:49am
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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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news Jimmy Kimmel apologizes on behalf of America in Channel 4 alternative Christmas message
By Drew Gillis December 26, 2025 | 9:21am
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anime Love Bullet takes a shot at queer romance, but with a heavily armed twist
By Catherine Masters December 26, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv Stranger Things packs an emotional punch as it sets the stage for its finale
By Saloni Gajjar December 25, 2025 | 8:00pm
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games Ra And Write flips the script on a classic board game
By Keith Law December 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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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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music The 50 greatest Christmas songs of all time
By Matt Mitchell December 24, 2025 | 12:15pm
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film The past boldly sings, shakes, and quakes in The Testament Of Ann Lee
By Caroline Siede December 24, 2025 | 11:00am
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film Cruelty spreads like The Plague in thrilling adolescent drama
By Jacob Oller December 24, 2025 | 9:00am
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news Merry Christmas from The A.V. Club
By Drew Gillis December 24, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv Fallout asks, "How many pricks can one Wasteland take?"
By William Hughes December 24, 2025 | 3:00am
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tv Carol faces a chilling choice in Pluribus' occasionally sublime season finale
By Noel Murray December 24, 2025 | 3:00am
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film First animated The Last Airbender movie to fly past movie theaters
By Matt Schimkowitz December 23, 2025 | 8:19pm
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tv CBS News' Scott Pelley unsurprisingly displeased with Bari Weiss’ handling of 60 Minutes segment
By Matt Schimkowitz December 23, 2025 | 6:20pm
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film Kevin Costner faces another Horizon lawsuit
By Matt Schimkowitz December 23, 2025 | 4:33pm
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games Octopath Traveler 0 shows how to adapt and preserve mobile games
By Willa Rowe December 23, 2025 | 4:00pm
