Wrapping up our end-of-the-year coverage with the best films, albums, and TV performances of 2018

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Monday

• The best TV performances of 2018
  
• The best indie and rock albums of 2018
  
• The A.V. Club’s 2018 podcast superlatives
  
• Adam McKay’s serious side can’t compete with his Will Ferrell comedies
  

Tuesday

• The A.V. Club’s 20 best albums of 2018
  
• The best albums of 2018: The ballots
  

Wednesday

• The best films of 2018
  
• The best of film 2018: The ballots
  
• The Faculty is the bleakest and most subversive film of the ’90s studio teen-horror cycle
  

Thursday

• What’s missing from our list of 2018's best movies?
  
• Watch out for mistletoe and snowballs: Navigating this year’s crop of holiday romance TV movies
  
• James Marsters on Runaways, Marvel, and whether it’s worth it to kill people if it saves the world
  

Friday

• Without hope or agenda: A defense of Love Actually
  
• Below wants you to know exactly how tiny and insignificant you really are
  
• A-Sides: John Legend, RuPaul, and all of this Christmas’ red-hot musical chestnuts
  
• What non-2018 pop culture did you finally get around to this year?
  
• Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full”