The A.V. Club’s favorite pieces from 2018
The 50 best special effects in all of cinema. Contemporary feminism explored through Claws and Handmaid’s Tale. A…
The Netflix Marvel series, ranked by season
After one very powerful, very bejeweled finger snap, the fate of many of Earth’s mightiest heroes—along with about half…
The best films of 2018
In a year defined by division, the one thing we could all agree on was movies. Just kidding! If anything, film…
The best of film 2018: The ballots
Now that everyone’s had a chance to peruse The A.V. Club’s best movies of 2018, it’s time to address a timeless…
The A.V. Club's 2018 podcast superlatives
Podcasts simply couldn’t contain themselves in 2018. Beyond setting multiple records (the third season of Serial was…
The best TV performances of 2018
The year in TV performances was marked as much by transformation as star power, as Hollywood A-listers continued to…
The best pop and R&B albums of 2018
Pop music is relentlessly omnivorous. In 2018, some of its biggest hits drew from trap, bounce, Reggaeton, African…
The best things on the internet in 2018
We often speak of the internet as if it’s an independent entity, with a mind and a will of its own. But thankfully,…
The worst things on the internet in 2018
And so draws to a close another year that we—all of us, willingly or not—spent online. If 2016 was a year defined by hat…
The best TV of 2018
It’s truer in 2018 than it was in 2017, or 2016, or 2015: Any survey of the year’s best TV can only provide a tiny…
The best TV of 2018: The ballots
The A.V. Club’s list of 2018’s best TV was determined by 17 critics, who each submitted a ranked ballot of their top 15…
The best electronic albums of 2018
Psst—even if you don’t listen to electronic music, every record you’ve ever heard is electronic music. The truth of…
The best film scenes of 2018
As usual, there was no shortage of worthy contenders for The A.V. Club’s list of the best movie scenes of the year.…
The best country albums of 2018
From one angle, the country music narrative in 2018 was distinguished by consistency. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia…
A.V. Club readers name their favorite games of 2018
Earlier this week, our writers submitted for reader consideration (and even, occasionally, approval) their collection…
The A.V. Club’s 10 favorite books of 2018
Death, art, cults, zombies—the year in literature was as eclectic as it was excellent. There were crimes in need of…
The best punk and hardcore albums of 2018
In 2018, the loose genre boundaries of punk and hardcore became more expansive than ever. For decades now, these…
The best films of 2018 that we didn’t review
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’s favorite games of 2018
The A.V. Club hasn’t traditionally structured its year-end round-up with some authoritative ranking, choosing instead…
The best film trailers of 2018
Movie trailers can be misleading. Their primary function is to sell us something, to get asses in seats any way they…