My personal list of the top 20 films of 2018. Be sure to check out these episodes of the Cinereelists podcast for expanded thoughts on the year that was!

» #363 – Top 20 of 2018
» #364 – The 2018 Movie Hangover

Honorable Mention:
A Private War
Alpha
American Animals
Annihilation
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Black Panther
Blindspotting
Cold War
Creed II
First Man
Hereditary
If Beale Street Could Talk
Incredibles 2
Instant Family
Isle of Dogs
Lean on Pete
Leave No Trace
Let the Corpses Tan
Mandy
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Overlord
Revenge
The Endless
Thoroughbreds
Tully
Vice
Zama

Regrets (aka 2018 Movies I have Not Yet Seen):
Destroyer
Shoplifters
Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot
Anna and the Apocalypse
Black '47
The Other Side of the Wind
Skate Kitchen
Cam
Bisbee '17
Border

Best Documentary (worst to best):
The American Meme
The Bleeding Edge
Fahrenheit 11/9
Whitney
Three Identical Strangers
American Animals
Jane
Won’t You Be My Neighbor
The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling

Biggest Disappointments:
Slice (a24, wanted it to be good)
Game Over Man (NetFlix movie from the Workaholics guys)
The Cloverfield Paradox (Cloverfield Lane was great, hyped-up Superbowl drop)
A Wrinkle in Time (so much hype)
Kin (liked it a lot but it bombed, so no more coming probably)
Mary Poppins Returns (perfectly fine, but not magical to me)
Super Troopers 2 (do comedy sequels that take so long ever work?)
Under the Silver Lake (dir of It Follows) & Hold the Dark (dir of Blue Ruin)