Movies. On the blockbuster front, Black Panther helped to change the whitewashed face of the modern superhero flick. I also swooned over Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski’s award-winning, black-and-white feature inspired by, and dedicated to, his parents. Movies. In animation, the year’s runaway hit was Incredibles 2, which, for me, outshone the original. Posted On April 29, 2020 15:48:34 3.7 out of 5 stars 29. The Best Movies of 2018. A young girl battles the Taliban in Nora Twomey’s superb animated adaptation of Deborah Ellis’s bestseller. The film was one of several Netflix-backed pictures (along with the likes of Paul Greengrass’s 22 July, the Coen brothers’ Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Duncan Jones’s Mute) which became part of an ongoing debate in 2018 about the merits of theatrical screenings versus television streaming. Tell us: what was your favourite film of 2018? Compiled by TIFF’s team of programmers in collaboration with film experts from across the country, the list showcases the best in Canadian screen storytelling: 10 must-see movies presenting the latest work by some of Canada’s finest filmmakers, and 10 essential shorts from exciting new voices and bold innovators. Rate. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw ranked The Incredibles as Pixar’s best ever film, the jewel in the crown. Paweł Pawlikowski’s tale of star-crossed lovers falling together and apart through the iron curtain of postwar Europe. I make no budget independent films and music myself. It has been an intriguing year for horror, with fans and critics alike fawning over Hereditary, although personally I preferred A Quiet Place, in which Emily Blunt, currently winning hearts in Mary Poppins Returns, excelled. From the multiplex to the art house, here are the year's standout films. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) Peter Jackson breathes new life into 100-year-old footage of the first world war with awe-inspiring results. 99 to rent. 2. The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: the ... - the Guardian Yep, being a film buff in 2018 is a full-time gig. Guardian 2019. Here's the link: The 100 Best Films of the 21st Century 1. The Favourite (2018) 7. The Guilty might be the best film of [the 2018 Florida Film Festival]. But my heart belongs to Nora Twomey’s The Breadwinner, a brilliant adaptation of Deborah Ellis’s much-loved YA novel, which has something of the defiant feminist spirit of the French-Iranian gem Persepolis. Your support powers our independent journalism, Available for everyone, funded by readers, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, and Daniel Day-Lewis’s swansong, could have been a self-indulgent apologia for tortured male genius – but instead turned its rich observational powers on the trials of new relationships, Debra Granik delivered a reminder of her greatness with this superlative drama about a father and daughter living off-grid, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s stark drama about a couple’s toxic relationship – and its catastrophic fallout – was a passionate dissenting cry from within Russia, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti were excellent as a sympathetic New York couple struggling to have a baby in Tamara Jenkins’s intensely personal drama, Marvel broke new ground with Ryan Coogler’s exhilarating introduction to Wakanda, bringing social conscience and diversity to the increasingly tired superhero genre, A couple’s passionate relationship mirrors postwar Poland’s political turmoil in Paweł Pawlikowski’s romantic epic, Steve McQueen’s heist drama is starry, sleek and majestically composed, with an emotional depth that sets it apart, Mexico’s Day of the Dead unearths family secrets in a Pixar animation whose impact has grown since its relatively low-key release, Increasing the sense of impending horror to almost unbearable intensity, Ari Aster’s terrifying debut caused convulsions – without a jump-scare in sight, Alfonso Cuarón delivers a layered, poignant Mexican drama to top our critics’ poll of movies, joining tales of game-changing superheroes, confused teenagers, musical lovers and terrified families. 5.5. From Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread (with its brilliant Jonny Greenwood score), which opened here in February, to Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite (superb performances from Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone), which previews from Boxing Day, 2018 was full of strange wonders. Prime Video $2.99 $ 2. The Guardian's 50 Best Films of 2019 in the UK - Page 2 show list info Our pick of the year's top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds Some of the best movies on Netflix right now include Crazy Rich Asians, Saint Frances and Us - we've picked the new and best Netflix movies. Spike Lee’s stranger-than-fiction tale may be set in the 1970s but it felt urgently relevant and contemporary in 2018. From, Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: the ... - The Guardian 1. 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