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Read the Arts & Entertainment section writers’ picks for the best films, tele- vision, music and video games of 2018 ... A2-A3 ... then, read what our writers chose as the worst media of 2018. A4 1 A2 Arts & Entertainment’s Best of 2018 We asked our Arts & Entertainment section writers to pick their favorite media for 2018. Some pieces were loved by many, but a few picks surprised us! Check them out below and on A3. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Spider-Man, PS4 controls of any platformer I have ever Season 2 Neil Runge, Staff Writer played and filled with to the brim Salena Moran, Staff Writer with gorgeous pixel art. Despite its Television The swinging is good. Repeat: difficulty, there was never a moment The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel the swinging is good. That’s one the in the game that felt unfair; every season 2 continues to follow aspiring greatest things about Spider-Man mistake was my own, which was the comedian Midge Maisel (Rachel for the Playstation 4. After years of exact reason why I could never put Brosnahan) in her life at home and games with subpar swinging through the game down. The whole time I was onstage as she competes to earn her New York City as photographer and telling myself “just one more time spot in a primarily male-dominated superhero Spider-Man, Insomniac and I’ll get it”. On its gameplay alone, career in 1959. The show’s vibrant Games developed a game not only Celeste is absolutely excellent and a set design, excellent script writing with web-swinging that felt just right, must play. The game goes the extra and character chemistry makes it but a story that moved many players mile though by touching on concepts one of the most enjoyable series Courtesy of Paramount Pictures to tears and a set of costumes that regarding mental illness, a topic currently on air. unwavering action of the Mission: audiences swoon, teary-eyed. This included everyone’s favorite spidey decisively missing within modern After season 1 established the Impossible series. By the time a series equal partnership of support and love, getups. games and was a pleasant surprise to preliminary details, this season reaches its sixth entry, most often paired with Ginsburg’s unwavering Spider-Man is a beautiful game to find in Celeste. branches out to settings like Paris and it begins losing steam, but Mission: resolve as an intellectual powerhouse, look at, as the animations are smooth the Catskills while thickening the plot Impossible - Fallout doesn’t slow make RBG a must-see. and never grow boring after seeing Love, Simon with Midge’s love life and struggles down for a single moment. From them hundreds of times. New York Claire Neiberg, Staff Writer with rival comedian, Sophie Lennon. director Christopher McQuarrie A Quiet Place City is portrayed in meticulous detail As Midge’s secret career begins to comes a masterclass on incorporating Natalie Schroeder, Staff Writer and major landmarks are included Love, Simon centers around a emerge among her family and friends, intense action while still telling a the show’s writer Amy Sherman- and can be visited by the player closeted gay teenager, Simon Spier compelling story. The performances This movie was released in April Palladino (writer of Gilmore Girls) during side quests or in between (Nick Robinson). Spier is a junior in of all the returning members of the 2018, and followed a family in a reveals enough saucy details without main story quests. high school, and from the outside, series are better than ever, with post-apocalyptic world inhabited giving too much away. On top of a incredibly made leads a completely normal life, as he newcomer Henry Cavill, playing by blind monsters with an acute The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season game, there is story that involves appears to have healthy relationships August Walker, truly stealing the sense of hearing. The film stars John 2 left me yelling at my TV for more Peter Parker who’s now older but with his family and friends. However, show. Mission: Impossible - Fallout Krasinski, alongside Emily Blunt, episodes, as it is equal parts witty and still busy being a hero. He runs into his biggest secret leads him to is not only the best of the series but Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe. hilarious as it is emotional and real. a litany of villians from the comics, pursuing a relationship with another the best action movie of 2018. With While this wasn’t your typical horror closeted gay teenager over email. movie, it did grab its audiences McQuarrie recently announced to be When these emails are discovered attention and surprise them in the returning to direct two more Mission: by one of Spier’s peers, they are used opening scenes. This movie centers Impossible movies back to back, I against him, forcing Spier to choose around what a mother and father do cannot wait to see what else is in store between his friends and his secret. to keep their children alive. Because for Ethan Hunt. While the film celebrates the they have a daughter who is deaf, LGBT+ community, Love, Simon is they have survived this long with their RBG a film that anyone, no matter theirFilm knowledge of sign language. Kailey Love, Editor-in-Chief sexuality, can connect to and find This is only one of the well thought meaning in. The film is comprised of out plot lines that differs this movie RBG delves into the life of a racially diverse cast of characters from other horror movies with plot Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader as well, and focuses on issues that all holes, dumb decisions by characters Ginsburg and her rise beyond legal high schoolers are faced with, mainly and deaths that could be avoided. For stardom into a nationwide household revolving around love and identity. example, one of the few supremely superhero as “The Great Dissenter” The soundtrack is timeless as well, poor decisions was made by a young Courtesy of Sony Interactive Entertainment of the Supreme Court, or “Notorious boy. The youngest of the siblings was and compliments the plot perfectly RBG” more commonly. Through a playing with a toy plane that made Brooklyn Nine-Nine some familiar like Doc Ock and some without being a distraction. The series of interviews with Ginsburg sounds, drawing out the monsters. Season 5 that might not be as well known like overall message of the film is that herself and those close to her, the Even though his father, portrayed by Natalie Schroeder, Staff Writer Mister Negative. “everyone deserves a great love story” documentary provides a window into John Krasinski, bravely tried to save There isn’t just a diverse cast of leaving the audience filled with hope Ginsburg’s life: her stylish jabots, him, the monster inevitably killed the This show, starring Melissa villians. The playable characters and a greater sense of acceptance. her lifelong love of Opera and her young boy. Throughout the movie Fumero, Andy Samberg, Stephanie aren’t just limited to Peter and Spider- memeable workout routines all there are justified decisions, a score Man. Many missions in the game are Mission: Impossible - Fallout Beatriz, Terry Crews and Chelsea making appearances throughout. It that moves the plot through suspense devoted to playing as Miles Morales Griffin Sendek, Staff Writer Peretti, ended its fifth season in also placed a spotlight on Ginsburg’s and a loving family that is easy to and Mary Jane, making this game not 2018, only to be cancelled by Fox relationship with her husband root for. John Krasinski definitely just a swinging filled action game but One of these days, Tom Cruise is and picked up for a sixth season by Marty, which is a real life fairytale deserved that Critics Choice Award. one with stealth and strategy. going to severely injure himself on a NBC. The show started off with a love story for the ages. “He was the movie set and no longer be capable bang of laughter and only got better first boy I ever knew who cared that Spider-Man: Celeste of doing all his own stunts. But until as its characters developedVideo and Games I had a brain,” Ginsburg said of her Into the Spider-Verse Griffin Sendek, Staff Writer then, we get to enjoy his portrayal jokes became long-running. Every husband in the documentary, making Sean Armstrong, Staff Writer of Ethan Hunt in the fantastic, character brings their own humor Celeste is a game that completely and delivery to the screen, making Spider-Man movies have become and utterly kicked my butt this year, every team-up entertaining, funny, almost an annual event at this point, but one I could not put down. For unique and necessary. With each but this film finally tries something those who are unaware, Celeste episode being roughly 20 minutes different and glosses over the details is a tough-as-nails 2D platformer everyone should know by this point. long, it is easy binge watch or watch in which you control a girl named This picture tries to blend together regularly. The show tackles major Madeleine on her quest to make the different animation styles in one of social issues and stereotypes while dangerous climb to the top of Celeste the most uniquely animated stories also maintaining its easy-going and mountain for no reason other than I have ever seen become a major funny atmosphere. While there is proving she can. Every step of the way, motion picture. Furthermore, this romantic drama, there is always a you are met by obstacles and people film tries to take fringe comic book humorous aspect that keeps the show telling you that you will never make characters and bring them into the moving forward on a realistic pace.