Welcome to The Ringer’s celebration of the year that was, in which we look back on everything that we loved in 2018. Here are our lists breaking down our favorite movies, songs, sports moments, underrated rap albums, video games, comebacks, and more.
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The Ringer’s Best of 2018
Breaking down our favorite movies, TV shows, songs, sports moments, and more
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December 31, 2018
Bloopers, Outtakes, and Behind-the-Scenes Moments From Ringer Originals 2018
We’ve decided to share some of our favorite behind-the-scenes moments from this year’s slate of Ringer Originals
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December 26, 2018
Claire Scanlon Directed Every Comedy You Loved This Year
From ‘Set It Up’ to episodes of ‘GLOW,’ ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ and ‘The Good Place,’ Scanlon has been a part of pretty much everything funny in 2018. Here’s how she did it.
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December 20, 2018
Ringer 365: Our 2018 Video Reel
Highlights from your year’s favorite Ringer videos
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December 19, 2018
Nobody’s Talking About Amazon’s TV Shows. Is Anyone Watching?
Despite some small successes like ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ and ‘Homecoming,’ big-budget misses like ‘The Romanoffs’ loom large for the streaming service, which is still looking for a culture-dominating flagship show
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December 18, 2018
The 10 Best Shots From the Year in Movies
2018 was full of sumptuous, alarming, and confounding images. Here are some of the most memorable, from Alfonso Cuarón’s soapy tiles in ‘Roma,’ to Tom Cruise gambling with his life in ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout.’
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December 17, 2018
The Best Apps We Discovered in 2018
Beyond Instagram and Spotify, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite niche apps of the year, from those that help you sleep and meditate to those that remind you to pay your bills
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December 14, 2018
The Best Memes of 2018
We’re riding our American Choppers to the Tide Pod factory to do surgery on some grapes
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December 12, 2018
The Best Comebacks of 2018
From Jalen Hurts to ‘The Expanse,’ these are the rebirths that entertained us most this year
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December 12, 2018
The MoviePass Hall of Fame
In honor of the films, people, and truly weird things we only saw this year because an app made it absurdly cheap to do so
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December 11, 2018
The Ringer’s 45 Favorite Sports Moments of 2018
From the Philly Special to UMBC’s upset to whatever J.R. Smith did in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, here are the sports moments that defined our year
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December 10, 2018
The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2018
From family trauma to Nazi zombies, this year’s scary movies ran the gamut from gross to grandiose
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December 10, 2018
The Best Video Games of 2018
From big-ticket titles to indie darlings, these are the games that challenged, entertained, and captivated us throughout the year
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December 7, 2018
The Top 10 Action Movies of 2018
This turned out to be a year of violent hybrid B-movies—films that didn’t reach a wide mainstream audience and, to be honest, didn’t even try
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December 7, 2018
The Best Movies of 2018
Harlem. South Korea. Mexico City. Wakanda. The finest films of the year went everywhere and showed us a new way to live.
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December 6, 2018
The Best Performances of 2018
From Tom Cruise to Jodie Comer to the hot duck, this year was full of compelling acts
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December 5, 2018
The Best Songs of 2018
It’s been an odd, intoxicating year in singles. Before we say thank you, next—here are our 10 favorites.
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December 4, 2018
The 10 Most Underrated Rap Albums of 2018
Our cup runneth over with hip-hop this year, but Ringer staffers narrowed down innumerable options to select their favorite unsung projects
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December 4, 2018
The Best Albums of 2018
From rap to country to rock to classical and back to rap again, two Ringer staffers count down the top 10 albums of the year