Staff

The best singles of the year were attuned to a worldwide drift toward maintaining one’s own financial and psychological bottom line.

This year’s TV revealed new characters and narrative landscapes that cumulatively push toward artistic expression and personal liberation.

This was the year of the sea change, a crucial moment where the medium found maturity and diversity.

This year’s festival is chockablock with studies of human relations that are connected to a soulful sense of consciousness-raising.

Cinema isn’t the sole mechanism for making our presence known, but it can be among the most powerful.

The series is an eclectic, geographically far-flung survey of rising filmmaking talent, rich in provocations big and small.

We’re kicking off our Grammy predictions with our picks in some of the smaller genre categories.

Bowie’s best singles proved his quest to turn and face the strange never ceased so long as there was a breath left in him.

More so than any year in recent memory, 2015 saw the music video being wielded as a political weapon.

If 2015’s best performances taught us anything, it’s that reality presents itself in many shapes and sizes.

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.