With only 50 titles making the big list, a lot of great films wound up on the cutting-room floor, including many that ranked high on our individual lists, but didn’t find consensus support. Here are 25 more films (five apiece) that appeared on one film writer's list, but no others:

The scene was not unlike 12 Angry Men (or, in this case, 3 Shlubby Men, 1 Exasperated Woman, And A Dude On Speaker Phone From Arkansas): Armed with lists of their favorite movies of the decade, the five core A.V. Club film writers spent days sequestered in a stuffy, un-air-conditioned room—okay, it was actually just a…

As we honor the best films of the decade, let us not forgot those who also played their part in making the decade memorable. Here are our picks for the most entertaining bad movies produced in the ’00s.

We're not going to try to come up with a comprehensive list of this decade's best scenes. Instead we asked each of our core movie writers to share the scenes they'll never forget and explain why.

A gigolo, a cowboy, an academic, a barber, an addict, a long-strawed consumer of your milkshake—these are just a few of the indelible characters given life by our favorite performances of the ‘00s. The five core A.V. Club film writers only found universal agreement on #1, but it was not hard to coalesce around the 20…

Anyone looking for trends in our selection of the best books of the ’00s might have a hard time finding them amid the wizards, 19th-century serial killers, dysfunctional families and such. Narrowing down our decisions was pretty tough, and the process required a number of back-and-forths about what was significant as…

Not all the action in the ’00s was in novels and non-fiction books, so here’s a selection of the decade’s best short-form collections.

The ’00s were a turbulent time for the comic-book business, as mainstream publishers like DC and Marvel suffered the sales declines affecting nearly all print-purveyors, while publishers of what used to be known as “alternative” comics saw some of their products hitting bestseller lists and turning up on the front…

We keep coming back to videogames for the same reasons we always have. Or do we? Games in 2009 look considerably different now than they did in 2000, and not just because the graphics have improved. What was once a lonely pursuit has gotten social, whether by way of a party-friendly round of Rock Band or a late-night…

Our list of the decade’s best music naturally didn’t cover every album our music writers loved in the ’00s, so we’re giving them the chance to big-up their personal favorites here—these are the discs that didn’t make our big list, but that nevertheless are worthy of your attention. Unless otherwise noted, these are…

For our best-of-the-decade music list, it was more about the gut than the strict math we use to determine the best albums of each year. We took a general poll of our music writers, then whittled things down to a manageable number, then talked some more about what should go where. It probably doesn’t need saying that…

Around this time every month, The A.V. Club forgets to lock its back door, and Texas-dwelling scumbag Leonard Pierce lets all of his disreputable longhair friends in to spike the water cooler with SoCo and listen to thrash until someone calls security. This month, however, is different. This month, as part of The A.V.…

The past decade in electronic music has been fitful and fruitful, with slews of new sounds and progress both big and small. Here’s an attempt to take stock of some of the main movements and the albums that attended them. (Some of the biggest ones appear in our upcoming Top 50 Albums Of The ’00s list, so take this list…

The ’00s will likely be remembered as the era “alternative comedy” broke. After the boom and bust of stand-up in the ’80s and the distinctly Seinfeld-ian ’90s, a new generation of smartasses arrived to stretch the limits and help redefine it. David Cross proved stand-up didn’t need to be performed in traditional…

1. The Wire (HBO, 2002-08)
Taking full advantage of the generous breadth of the television format—and HBO’s commitment to ambitious, form-expanding programming—The Wire unfolded like a great American novel, trusting viewers to pick up on the intricate connections between seasons, characters, and myriad details.…

Sex And The City, “Easy Come, Easy Go” (August 6, 2000)
Several years removed from its heyday, it’s easy to spot the flaws in HBO’s fairy tale about a single girl in the big city. The much-lauded dialogue feels creaky with age—less witty repartee and more a stereotypical vision of how sophisticated women might gab…

1. Top Chef/Project Runway (Bravo, 2006-present/Bravo & Lifetime, 2004-present)
After America’s Next Top Model showed that there was an audience for a TV show about the fashion industry, Project Runway proved that ANTM fans weren’t just looking at the pretty girls, but also the clothes. The basic Project Runway…

1. Generation Kill (HBO, 2008)
It’s no coincidence that this intense, impressive seven-episode look at the early days of the Iraq War was the work of the men who made The Wire; the two projects share the same love of internal argot, the same sensitivity to men doing a dangerous job that some of them don’t really…

1. The Daily Show/The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 1996-present/2005-present)
Comedy fans and policy wonks can bicker all they want about whether The Daily Show is better than The Colbert Report or vice versa, but doesn’t everyone watch the two as a package? The Daily Show is more direct about its political…