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2019 Super Bowl commercials: The best and worst of what we've seen so far

This year's advertising Super Bowl has, again, lots of celebrities and lots of dogs. It also has many ads featuring dogs, amirite? The recent trend toward sincerity continues with spots about environmentally responsible beer making and female empowerment in sports and in dating. And tech giants Amazon and Google continue to battle for the small pieces of our mind share they cannot already access.

Here are our rankings of the best, the worst, and the vast middle of the pack among the 2019 Super Bowl commercials that have been released so far:

M&M's, "Bad Passengers." A-

The Mars hard-shelled candy brand

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