Staff

From new age to rap to pop, we’ve assembled a list of 10 albums we hope you won’t find under the tree next week.

Here are 20 scenes where the occasion enraptured us as much as, or more than, the final product.

So long as you know where to look or can swing the price, here are 20 essential releases you’ll want to have on your shelves.

At a time when so many certainties are slipping away, the cream of the theatrical crop is concerned with collapsing established boundaries.

If ingenuity and craft are legitimate measures of success, then the rumors of the LP’s demise are indeed greatly exaggerated.

Our picks for the best singles of the year found new, inventive means of correspondence between the past and the present.

The year saw TV not only taking on stories that film studios lost interest in a while ago, but starting to create cinematic visions out of these stories.

Whether gamers end up going for all of these titles, that there’s now more for everyone can only be a net positive for the future of this industry.

In addition to new works by auteurs new and old, the festival is once again rich in sidebars and special events that aren’t to be missed.

The films detour down stylistic back roads that yield new perspectives on the art/life divide.

This year’s great music videos often offered a behind-the-scenes, sometimes meta, look at image-making.

Though 2014 produced some great albums, the last 12 months often seemed, at best, a transitional year for music.

Here are 10 essential moments that kept our eyes open and thoughts racing more than any other in 2014.

We hope to shine a little light on brilliant, touching, often funny performances which enrich our understanding of what it means to be human.

These films prove essential not just to discussions about the state of cinema, but the very fabric of quotidian life.

Pop culture’s pendulum trajectory swings between outrage and fatigue, but there are still things to celebrate.

Finding the gems with freshness and vitality is as much a burrower’s game as ever these days.

Many of the year’s best shows approached storytelling in the episodic form from clever, distinct perspectives.

This may be a slate we look back on as ground zero for something that transcends everything that came prior.

The detail Fincher will bring to Gone Girl’s secrets may speak to the essence of this ambitiously far-flung cultural event.