This is a list of my favourite films of 2018.
★★★★★ Favorite / Masterpiece
★★★★½ Exceptional
★★★★ Great
★★★½ Good
★★★ Interesting
★★½ Flawed but Worthy
Zimna Wojna – (Cold War)
★★★★½
dir. Pawel Pawlikowsi
Hist. Period Drama
[Poland, 2018]
死灵魂 – (Dead Souls)
★★★★½
dir. Wang Bing
Documentary
[France / Switzerland, 2018]
Black Panther
★★★★½
dir. Ryan Coogler
Superhero
[USA, 2018]
Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse
★★★★½
dir. Persicchetti, Ramsey, Rothman
Animated Superhero
[USA, 2018]
The Favourite
★★★★½
dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Period Black Comedy
[UK, 2018]
Amazing Grace
★★★★½
dir. Sidney Pollack
Concert Film
[USA, 2018]
大世界 – (Have a Nice Day)
★★★★½
dir. Liu Jian
Animated Dark Comedy
[China, 2017]
A Prayer Before Dawn
★★★★
dir. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Drama
[UK/US/France/China, 2018]
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
★★★★
dir. Julien Faraut
Documentary
[France, 2018]
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
★★★★
dir. RaMell Ross
Documentary
[USA, 2018]
McQueen
★★★★
dir. Ian Bonhote, Peter Ettedgui
Documentary
[UK, 2018]
Free Solo
★★★★
dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
Documentary
[USA, 2018]
Hereditary
★★★★
dir. Ari Aster
Horror
[USA, 2018]
Den Skyldige – (The Guilty)
★★★★
dir. Gustav Möller
Thriller
[Denmark, 2018]
The Rider
★★★★
dir. Chloe Zhao
Contemp. Western Drama
[USA, 2017]
The Tale
★★★★
dir. Jennifer Fox
Drama
[USA, 2018]
Minding the Gap
★★★★
dir. Bing Liu
Documentary
[USA, 2018]
Eighth Grade
★★★★
dir. Bo Burnham
Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama
[USA, 2018]
You Were Never Really Here
★★★½
dir. Lynne Ramsey
Psychothriller Crime Drama
[USA, 2018]
Shirkers
★★★½
dir. Sandi Tan
Documentary
[Singapore, 2018]
Mission Impossible: Fallout
★★★½
dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Spy Action
[USA, 2018]
Sweet Country
★★★½
dir. Warwick Thornton
Western
[Australia, 2017]
버닝 – (Burning)
★★★½
dir. Lee Chang-Dong
Psychological Mystery Drama
[South Korea, 2018]
Leave No Trace
★★★½
dir. Debra Granik
Drama
[USA, 2018]
Zama
★★★½
dir. Lucrecia Martel
Period Drama
[Argentina, 2017]
First Man
★★★½
dir. Damien Chazelle
Biographical Drama
[USA, 2018]
Widows
★★★½
dir. Steve McQueen
Neo-Noir Heist Thriller
[USA, 2018]