This year’s Super Bowl of advertising featured, again, lots of celebrities and lots of dogs. It also had many commercials featuring dogs, amirite? The recent trend toward sincerity continued with spots about environmentally responsible beer making and female empowerment in sports and in dating. And tech giants Amazon and Google kept on battling for the small pieces of our mind share they cannot already access.

Here is a sampling of some of the best and worst 2019 Super Bowl commercials. See the ads and reviews of all of them at chicagotribune.com/superbowlads.