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The best of 2014: movies, TV, music, and books

Contributors: Vox Staff
18 Total Updates Since
Dec 1, 2014, 1:30pm EST
  • January 5, 2015

    Still need binge-watching recommendations? Here are 30 more great 2014 shows.

    By Emily St. James

    Everything from superheroes to dragons to mob bosses figure into this list of runners-up.

  • December 31, 2014

    The 10 best movies of 2014

    By Emily St. James

    From giant blockbusters to tiny documentaries, these were 10 films that we loved in 2014.

  • December 30, 2014

    The best books we read in 2014

    By Vox Staff

    Vox editors, writers, and designers on the titles that grabbed their attention this year.

  • December 29, 2014

    Why the Bone Clocks was one of 2014’s cleverest new novels

    By Zack Beauchamp

    David Mitchell's genre-spanning new novel, The Bone Clocks, is one of the year's best. Here's why.

  • December 23, 2014

    The 30 best TV shows of 2014

    By Emily St. James

    If we ran the world, these shows would be at the top of the Nielsens.

  • December 23, 2014

    My favorite 2014 music video: hundreds of women with umbrellas filmed from a drone

    By Timothy B. Lee

    OK Go filmed a video Japan using a drone-mounted camera. Regulations could have made it difficult to make the same video here in the United States.

  • December 23, 2014

    The Flash was the best superhero show of 2014

    By Alex Abad-Santos

    The Flash isn't necessarily the best show of 2014, but it might be the one you like the most.

  • December 18, 2014

    The Simpsons turns 25 this week. Here are the 25 best cartoons it inspired

    By Emily St. James, Eden Rohatensky, Kelsey McKinney, Dylan Matthews, and Danielle Kurtzleben

    Our list includes everything from weird Adult Swim shows to major broadcast hits.

  • December 16, 2014

    Charli XCX made two of 2014's biggest hits, and just dropped one of its best albums

    By Kelsey McKinney

    So should you be paying attention to Charli XCX? If you care about pop music and where it's going, definitely.

  • December 15, 2014

    11 great songs of 2014 that were buried on terrible albums

    By Kelsey McKinney

    These aren't one-hit-wonders.

  • December 12, 2014

    2014, explained in Cher tweets

    By Alex Abad-Santos

    On Twitter, Cher is a digital oracle. Here are some of her best tweets.

  • December 10, 2014

    5 of 2014's best songs are also its most embarrassing

    By Kelsey McKinney

    But they're all great. Seriously.

  • December 9, 2014

    Bitch Planet is the feminist comic book we’ve all been waiting for

    By Alex Abad-Santos

    It's one hell of an opening issue.

  • December 8, 2014

    5 reasons the post-apocalyptic Station Eleven was my favorite novel of 2014

    By Emily St. James

    Emily St. John Mandel's luminous book has beautiful writing and a compelling story.

  • December 6, 2014

    The Wicked and the Divine was the best comic book of 2014

    By Alex Abad-Santos

    This year and its Wednesdays have belonged to The Wicked + The Divine, a jewel of a comic.

  • December 3, 2014

    The 9 best "Let it Go" parodies of 2014

    By Kelsey McKinney

    In 2014, this addictive song was pretty much one with the air we breathed.

  • December 2, 2014

    9 albums from 2014 that blow U2's Songs of Innocence out of the water

    By Kelsey McKinney

    In no world is U2's Songs of Innocence the best album of 2014.

  • December 1, 2014

    I can't believe I'm writing this, but The Walking Dead is one of the best shows of 2014

    By Emily St. James

    Here's how the show is revolutionizing TV story structure.