The following are my favorite 14 films of 2018. Why 14? Because there’s 4 that could not be left off to make it an even 10. Why these movies and not the honorable mentions? There’s an imaginary demarcation that separates them from the rest. Something that makes them important and I connect with. You will agree with some and hate others. Cinema is wonderful that way.

 

THE BEST:

Thunder Road

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Roma

Mandy

Shirkers

Annihilation

First Reformed

Free Solo

First Man

The Rider

Minding The Gap

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

You Were Never Really There

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS/NOT RELEASED IN 2018

Out of Africa

Vice

Madeline’s Madeline

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

A Certain Kind of Death

Things to Come

Score

Son of Saul

Two Lane Blacktop

The Hero

My American Friend

A Prayer Before Dawn

Thelma

Suspiria

The Old Man and the Gun

Mountain

Filmworker

The Other Side of the Wind

Logan’s Run

Burning

Widows

Tale of Tales

Raw

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

They Shall Not Grow Old