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Guess I should make a list, although my 2018 films seen is pathetically low (14) and honestly, not likely to increase more than a dozen, if that many.

1. Black Panther
2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
3. BlacKklansman
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. A Star is Born
6. The Favourite

7. Overboard*
8. Incredibles 2
9. Roma
10. Solo

*sometimes marital bliss means drunkenly enjoying the hell out of a truly stupid comedy with one's spouse, and that experience for this was and is delightful and a good memory, and the fun ways they integrated telenovela absurdities into an absurd situation were consistently charming.

1. First Reformed
2. Burning
3. The House that Jack Built
4. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
5. Roma
6. Minding the Gap
7. Shoplifters
8. Vazante
9. Thoroughbreds
10. You Were Never Really Here

1. 3 Faces
2. Phantom Thread
3. Bodied
4. Shoplifters
5. Happy As Lazzaro
6. Roma
7. Season of the Devil
8. Asako I & II
9. Leave No Trace
10. You Were Never Really Here

1. Hereditary
2. Roma
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me ?
4. First Reformed
5. The Little Stranger
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7. Upgrade
8. Suspiria
9. Leave No Trace
10. McQueen

Good: Calibre, The House That Jack Built, Cold Skin, Bumblebee, The Incredibles 2, Black Panther, Ant Man & The Wasp, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Paddington 2, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Red Sparrow, Unfriended: The Dark Web, Annihilation, The Quake, Revenge, Mamma Mia ! Here We Go Again, I Am a Hero, Sorry to Bother You, Isle of Dogs, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, First Man, Avengers Infinity War, Support the Girls, Unsane, The Rider, Whitney,

Mixed: The Favourite, Border, A Quiet Place, Burning, The Devil’s Doorway, Venom, Deadpool 2, A Star is Born, Ready Player One, The Meg, Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Creed II, Fantastic Beasts 2, The Cured, The Strangers: Prey at Night, Adrift, Hotel Artemis, The First Purge, The Predator, Widows, Mandy, Bad Times at the El Royale, The Night Eats the World, Anna and the Apocalypse, Let the Corpses Tan, Thoroughbreds,

Bad: Searching, Aquaman, Climax, Halloween, A Simple Favor, Rampage, Pacific Rim Uprising, You Were Never Really Here, Hell Fest, Overlord, Skyscraper

Had the Netflix series Wild Wild Country been a movie, then it would have been in my top 5.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
2. The Death of Stalin
3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
4. Isle of Dogs
5. Game Night
6. Mission: Impossible--Fallout
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(Mamma Mia Here We Go Again ?)

1 Madeline's Madeline
2 Minding the Gap
3 Burning
4 BlacKkKlansman
5 Wildlife
6 Diane
7 The House that Jack Built
8 Climax
9 Game Night
10 Gemini

Just setting up a list for 2018, though not able to fully fill it out!

1. Mandy
2. Amanda
3. Surviving Christmas With The Relatives
4. Ready Player One
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Also seen: Free Solo

Previous lists: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

1. Long Day's Journey into Night (Bi Gan)
2. One or Two Questions (Kristina Konrad)
3. Closing Time (Nicole Vögele)
4. Djamilia (Aminatou Echard)
5. The Absence of Apricots (Daniel Asadi Faezi)
6. Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Sôda)
7. Ode to the Goose (Zhang Lu)
8. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
9. ________ (Kyle Faulkner)
10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

(alphabetical)

BlacKkKlansman
Burning
First Reformed
Isle of Dogs
Searching
Shoplifters
Sorry to Bother You
Three Identical Strangers
Thoroughbreds
Widows