My Top 50 Movies of 2018
1. Widows (Steve McQueen)
2. Hereditary (Ari Aster)
3. Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley)
4. Wild Rose (Tom Harper)
5. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob
Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman)
7. Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
8. Sorry To Bother You (Boots Riley)
9. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
10. A Simple Favor (Paul Feig)
11. Game Night (John Francis Daley and
Jonathan Goldstein)
12. Damsel (David Zellner and Nathan
Zellner)
13. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
14. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
15. Annihilation (Alex Garland)
16. Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
17. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
18. Fast Color (Julia Hart)
19. Paddington 2 (Paul King)
20. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski)
21. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu)
22. Support The Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
23. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle
Heller)
24. The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)
25. Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
26. The Landy of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener)
27. Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
28. A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
29. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel
Cohen and Ethan Cohen)
30. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne
Ramsay)
31. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos)
32. Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo)
33. Bumblebee (Travis Knight)
34. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
35. Parallel (Isaac Ezban)
36. Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross)
37. The Post (Steven Spielberg)
38. Aquaman (James Wan)
39. Hotel Artemis (Drew Pearce)
40. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker)
41. Halloween (David Gordon Green)
42. The Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
43. Blame (Quinn Shephard)
44. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
45. On The Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder)
46. Bird Box (Susanne Bier)
47. Cam (Daniel Goldhaber)
48. The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo)
49. Happy As Lazarro (Alice Rohrwacher)
50. To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson)
I think 2018 might be my favorite year of the ones I've looked at for this series so far, just a lot of stuff that really left a big impression on me. A great year for Black filmmakers, for superhero movies, and for two genres that are really close to my heart, horror and comedy. And let me just say, I think Wild Rose really should have won some Oscars but didn't because it had the bad fortune to come out the same year as A Star Is Born (which is good, but not nearly as good).
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