Dynamic Top Tens of 2018

[PfR73]

I claim this chest in the name of Spain

1) First Reformed
2) Under The Silver Lake
3) Annihilation
4) The Death Of Stalin
5) Upgrade
6) The Favourite
7) Hold The Dark
8) Damsel
9) Blackkklansman
10) Burning

Honorable Mention: Anna And The Apocalypse, Blindspotting, Bodied, Border, Burning, Can You Ever Forgive Me, Destroyer, Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot, The Front Runner, Game Night, The House Of Tomorrow, Shoplifters, Small Town Crime, Sorry To Bother You, Suck It Up, Vox Lux, Widows

Worst: Unfriended-Dark Web, The Commuter, Dog Days

[sir_luke]

Saved


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[big ticket]

I guess I will set up here, instead of my usual spot atop the third page!

[Kirkinson]

1. El Mar La Mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki)
2. Milla (Valérie Massadian)
3. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
4. I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni)
5. Vazante (Daniela Thomas)
6. Flores (Jorge Jácome)
7. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
8. Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley)
9. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
10. Tully (Jason Reitman)

Very Good
Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
Railway Sleepers (Sompot Chidgasornpongse)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)

Fairly Good
BlackKKlansman (Spike Lee)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
Gemini (Aaron Katz)
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle)
Hereditary (Ari Aster)
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
Colette (Wash Westmoreland)

Mixed or Mediocre
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
Ant-Man & the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
A Wrinkle in Time (Ava DuVernay)
Ocean's 8 (Gary Ross)
The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao)
Le fort des fous (Narimane Mari)

Not Good
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo Bros.)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)

Going by US release dates. Films with no US distributor, or whose exact release date information is otherwise obscure, are deemed 2018 if that's when they first screened in Portland, OR.

[mfunk9786]

01. First Reformed (Schrader)
02. Vox Lux (Corbet)
03. Unsane (Soderbergh)
04. BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
05. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Van Sant)
06. If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins)
07. A Star Is Born (Cooper)
08. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (J. Coen/E. Coen)
09. The Other Side of the Wind (Welles)
10. Tully (Reitman)

2019:

01. Her Smell (Perry)

LAST UPDATED: 11/16/2018

Past lists: 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

[LQ]

1. First Reformed
2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. Vox Lux
6. The Other Side of the Wind
7. Unsane
8. Tully
9. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
10. Mid90s

[Omensetter]

01. First Reformed
02. Zama
03. Support the Girls
04. Eighth Grade
05. Ishmael's Ghosts
06. Sorry to Bother You
07. Leave No Trace
08. Western
09. Isle of Dogs
10. Game Night

Next Tier: The Rider

Also seen: You Were Never Really Here, Generation Wealth

[jindianajonz]

Annihilation
Black Panther
Isle of Dogs
You Were Never Really Here
Deadpool 2
BlacKkKlansman

[Andre Jurieu]

1. Mandy (Cosmatos)
2. Annihilation (Garland)
3. Black Panther (Coogler)
4. Isle of Dogs (Anderson)
5. Unsane (Soderbergh)
6. Game Night (Daley & Goldstein)
7. Eighth Grade (Burnham)
8. Mission Impossible: Fallout (McQuarrie)
9. Three Identical Strangers (Wardle)
10. Sorry to Bother You (Riley)

First Man (Chazelle)
RBG (West, Cohen)
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo Bros.)
Suspiria (Guadagnino)
Hereditary (Aster)

[HistoryProf]

Saved

[Newsnayr]

1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
2. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
4. Bisbee '17 (Robert Greene)
5. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
6. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
7. Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
9. Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)

[TheDudeAbides]

I need to see some more good films as everything after 6 should be no where near my top 10

1. Hereditary (Aster)
2. Annihilation (Garland)
3. First Man (Chazelle)
4. Isle of Dogs (Anderson)
5. Unsane (Soderbergh)
6. Mandy (Cosmatos)
7. Deadpool 2 (Leitch)
8. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (McQuarrie)
9. Halloween (Green)
10. A Quiet Place (Krasinski)

Good:
The Public (Estevez)
Black Panther (Coogler)
Upgrade (Whannell)
Searching (Chaganty)
The Strangers: Prey at Night (Roberts)

Meh
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo Brothers)
The Wind (Tammi)
The Predator (Black)
The Nun (Hardy)
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci)
Tag (Tomsic)
Insidious: The Last Key (Robitel)
The First Purge (McMurray)
Chappaquiddick (Curran)
Game Night (Daley, Goldstein)
Crazy Rich Asians (Chu)

Not Good:
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Howard)
Winchester (Spierig Brothers)
Slender Man (White)
Extinction (Young)

Terrible:
The Commuter (Collet-Serra)
Truth or Dare (Wadlow)
How It Ends (Rosenthal)
The Cloverfield Paradox (Onah)
Little Italy (Petrie)

2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

[JakeB]

Looking forward to updating/keeping on top of this as the year goes on. My favourite cinema releases this year:

1.The Rider (dir. Chloe Zhao)
2. Western (dir. Valeska Gisebach)
3. Rey (dir. Niles Attalah)
4. Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
5. The Nothing Factory (dir. Pedro Pinho)

[goblinfootballs]

1. Burning
2. Bisbee '17
3. Zama
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. BlacKkKlansman
6. On the Beach at Night Alone
7. Hereditary
8. First Reformed
9. Sorry to Bother You
10. The Other Side of the Wind

[Michael Kerpan]

1. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo)

I just got LAST year's Hong films (and still have yet to watch THEM)!

[j99]

Reserved

[Lars Von Truffaut]

Saved

[Oedipax]

Finally some films to fill out this list!

1. First Reformed (Schrader)
2. Burning (Lee)
3. Happy Hour (Hamaguchi)*
4. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Van Sant)
5. Madeline's Madeline (Decker)
6. Donbass (Loznitsa)
7. Claire's Camera (Hong)**
8. Ash is Purest White (Jia)
9. Knife + Heart (Gonzalez)
10. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (Tyrnauer)

Also seen / at least partly liked: Three Faces (Panahi), Climax (Noé), BlacKkKlansman (Lee), Vent d'ouest (Anonymous), Custody (Legrand), Mandy (Cosmatos), You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay), Asako I & II (Hamaguchi), The House That Jack Built (Von Trier), Shoplifters (Kore-eda).

* Including this here because I saw this in its French theatrical release, and it has been hard for a lot of people to see up until the semi-recent home video release.
** Same reasoning as Happy Hour.

[Lemmy Caution]

1. Sorry to Bother You
2. Tully
3.


10. The Death of Stalin

[dshooker]

Saved

[RSTooley]

Reserved

[Aunt Peg]

01. Burning (Chang-dong Lee)
02. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
03. Peterloo (Mike Leigh)
04. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
05. The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi)
06. Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
07. Custody (Xavier Legrand)
08. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude)
09. The Old Man and the Gun (David Lowery)
10. The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)

[cantinflas]

1. The 15:17 to Paris
2. Ready Player One
3. Batman Ninja
4. The Equalizer 2
5. Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
6. The Predator
7. Death Wish
8. Upgrade
9. Mile 22
10. Uncle Drew

[phred2321]

1. Annihilation
2. Sorry to Bother You
3. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
4. First Reformed
5. Black Panther
6. Incredibles 2
7. Isle of Dogs
8. Unsane
9. Hereditary
10. Deadpool 2

[wattsup32]

The Best:

1. First Reformed
2. Unsane
3. Annihilation
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. Sorry to Bother You
6. Mandy
7. Hereditary
8. The Rider
9. American Animals
10. Game Night

The Rest (not numbered, but listed in ranked order): Tully, First Man, Disobedience, Let the Sun Shine In, BlacKKKlansman, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Sisters Brothers, Teen Titans Go!, A Simple Favor, Upgrade, A Star Is Born, Suspiria, Incredibles 2, Beirut, Bad TImes at the El Royale, Isle of Dogs, Avengers: Infinity Wars, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Assassination Nation, Black Panther, White Boy Rick, A Quiet Place, Deadpool 2, Three Identical Strangers, Ant Man and the Wasp, Nutcracker in the Four Realms, The House With A Clock In Its Walls, Let the Corpses Tan, Ocean's 8, Tag, Equalizer 2, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Crazy Rich Asians, Happytime Murders, Rampage, Stree, Hotel Transylvania 3, Truth or Dare, Hotel Artemis, Uncle Drew, Blockers, Breaking In, A Wrinkle in Time, Overboard, The Predator, Sin Island