Best Of 2012

To everything (turn, turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn, turn), and an A.V. Club article to match. The world…

This past year, DC and Marvel underwent significant line-wide changes; Image Comics rose as the primary publisher…

The lines separating various comics niches have gotten fuzzier every year, as genre comics become more literary,…

Every year, The A.V. Club embarks upon elaborate voting rituals to determine the sorta-consensus best films, albums,…

There’s so much good TV on right now that it’s impossible to confine to one list of 30 shows. As always, we’ve come…

An artistic golden age isn’t possible without the garbage to weigh that gold against. And in the case of at least…

For years now, hourlong dramas have been TV’s greatest claim to the title of “the only art form that matters.” If…

There’s so much good TV on right now that it’s impossible to confine to one list of 30 shows. As always, we’ve come…

Every year, The A.V. Club ventures into the skeeziest, sleaziest dollar stores that haven’t yet collapsed under the…

Every year provides plenty of films worth cherishing, but there are isolated scenes and moments, too, that are…

While the A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools…

So far, The A.V. Club has looked at the best films of 2012 and put a spotlight on the films we consider to be the…

From the gut-wrenching, step-by-step chronology of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad to…

While The A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools…

Every year, The A.V. Club mines its CD stacks, digital downloads, and inboxes looking for the least essential albums…

For our third year of rating the year’s best podcasts, we revisited how we did it the first time around. That is,…

While The A.V. Club staff gets to weigh in about what movies, TV, music, and more we liked this year, we’d be fools…

Each month in Loud, Jason Heller and John Semley catch and dissect recent releases in the metal, punk, and hardcore…

The truth about any kind of group “best of” list is that it’s always going to trend toward conventionality, if only…