best of 2018

Yesterday, The A.V. Club revealed its favorites movies of 2018. Today, we’re wondering: What’s missing from our list?

In a year defined by division, the one thing we could all agree on was movies. Just kidding! If anything, film…

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…

Each new “best albums” list published seems to confirm: We couldn’t agree on much this year. And it’s extremely…

The A.V. Club’s list of 2018’s best albums was determined by eight critics, who each submitted a ranked ballot of…

Podcasts simply couldn’t contain themselves in 2018. Beyond setting multiple records (the third season of Serial was…

Like pop and R&B, indie and rock are huge, diverse fields overlapping and extending outward to countless…

The year in TV performances was marked as much by transformation as star power, as Hollywood A-listers continued to…

Pop music is relentlessly omnivorous. In 2018, some of its biggest hits drew from trap, bounce, Reggaeton, African…

We often speak of the internet as if it’s an independent entity, with a mind and a will of its own. But thankfully,…

Holy shit, what a year for hip-hop! Could it actually be that this year saw the release of new albums by (deep…

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 …

Though it’s always a group effort (misery loves company), The A.V. Club’s list of the year’s worst movies is almost…

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 A.V. Club’s list of 2018’s best TV was determined by 17 critics, who each submitted a ranked ballot of their top…

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…

Earlier this week, our writers submitted for reader consideration (and even, occasionally, approval) their…