Best of 2018: A look back at the year in movies, TV, music and more
As 2018 comes to an end, it’s time to take a look back. Los Angeles Times critics in music, movies, television and the arts look back on the best in the year in entertainment.
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Entertainment in 2018 was a celebration of the old (reboots like “Charmed” and “Magnum P.I.” and celebrating 100 years of the L.A.
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One of my favorite television shows of 2018 is the 2015 French dramedy “Call My Agent!”
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The flat screen on your living room wall, the cable box below it and that digital program guide that help you find your way through an increasingly congested universe of shopping networks, reality show repeats and the eight channels you actually watch might as well have been inhabitants of a dying star in 2018.
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Mark Olsen (@IndieFocus) and TV writers Yvonne Villarreal (@villarrealy), Lorraine Ali (@LorraineAli) and Robert Lloyd (@LATimesTVLLoyd) break down whether 2018 was a good year for TV.
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On a rainy day in a Senate chamber, they swore their oaths and did battle: she of the blue-suit and measured voice; he of the tears, rage and denial.
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In 2018, there were three names that seemingly everyone in or around comedy had an opinion about: Hannah Gadsby, Drew Michael and Donald Trump.
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In a cooly blunt scene from this fall’s art market documentary “The Price of Everything,” New York gallerist Gavin Brown offers his observations on the nature of art and money: “They are like Siamese twins — money and art,” he says.
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Though often associated with being a form that emphasizes the instrumental, some of my favorite recordings in jazz this year also include the human voice, though maybe not in a way that’s often associated with vocal jazz.
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There were plenty of strong second- and third-season series this year — “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Atlanta,” “Better Call Saul,” “Versailles” — but picking 2018’s top new series is a bit trickier.
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By the time he’s gotten to the song’s first chorus, Matty Healy of the 1975 has already addressed fake news, Black Lives Matter, online data breaches, America’s prison-industrial complex and his own addiction to heroin.
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Mark Olsen (@IndieFocus) and film critics Kenneth Turan (@KennethTuran) and Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) break down their favorite movies of 2018, including “Vox Lux,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
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Some new things on a television screen I loved in 2018.
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It was a good year for the troubadours — the modern-day equivalent to the town criers of old, and those who take it on themselves to inform and enlighten those within earshot to the dangers and the virtues of the world around them.
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There’s never been a better time to fall in love with Latin music.
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The recent demise of the subscription streaming service FilmStruck set off alarm bells among movie buffs.
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In movie business parlance, a four-quadrant film is one that appeals to each of a potential audience’s four demographic groups: men and women, those over and those under 25 years of age.
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“To me, the world is a mystery.”
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It is not a political statement to say that these are strange and troubled times.
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For the first time in memory, considerably more women than men had full-scale solo exhibitions, whether retrospectives or more focused surveys, in Los Angeles art museums this year.
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In chronological order of their opening, these were the 10 most engaging art museum exhibitions that I saw this year within L.A.’
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The year clicked into gear relatively early with two revivals that invited us to listen anew to modern classics we mistakenly assumed we knew inside out.
