Hello once again, this is a list of my favorite 10 films that I’ve seen this year, all of which I’ve seen within the calendar year 2018. All but one are movies I’ve reviewed on this site. With that said, here we go, in order of when I saw them.

1. The Post – A movie about the real-life event of a turning point in newspaper history. The Washington Post is given a lead about the US Government’s’ secret expansion of hostilities in the war against Vietnam. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks costar, too give it the weight it deserves.
2. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – An update to the original Jumanji movie. Four high-schoolers in detention get pulled into a video game, and have to win it to survive. It’s a refreshing reboot that’s a lot of fun really doesn’t take itself too seriously.
3. Black Panther – What can you say? Black Panther was a Marvel film where they took the time to get it all right. A full and lush film.
4. Deadpool 2 – Ryan Reynolds manages to recapture the spirit and salty tone of the original film that readily and repeatedly breaks the Fourth Wall. The post credits sequences really make for a fun time!
5. RBG – The woman, the myth, the legend. This documentary gives you a look behind the curtain to show you who this Supreme Court Justice really is. Even though she’s totally unlike her portrayal on SNL, she proves that her quiet strength only solidifies how special she really is.
6. Christopher Robin – Ewan McGregor plays the titular role, several decades after living in the 100 acre wood. He’s married, with children, working in a hapless job, and is really on a downslide. Pooh finds him and behaves exactly how he was in the books, and it spirals from there. Definitely intended as a kid’s movie, but it’s engaging enough that adults should enjoy it, too.
7. The Old Man & The Gun – Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Danny Glover, and Tom Waits round out the cast of a film about aging bank robbers, and how they’ve gotten away with it (and how they haven’t). This movie plays slowly and builds to the climax. Excellent performances all around.
8. First Man – Nationalist controversy aside, this is an excellent film about Neil Armstrong, and his rise to become the first man on the moon. He was a man of few words and little emotion, and there was no better actor to fit that role than Ryan Gosling. Claire Foy plays Janet, and she’s a force of nature. The film was shot with Shakey cam, which I detest with every core of my being, BUT, the space scenes won me back over. They were just as nail-biting as they were, back then. If you didn’t see them in a big theater, well, then, you done missed out. Probably my favorite film of 2018.
9. Cold War – A Foreign Film I didn’t write up, but I saw it thanks to the ArtHouse Film Festival. It’s subtitled, being primarily in Polish and French. A man and a young woman, part of a national singing group decide to defect to the West while they’re on tour in the early days of the Cold War. Things go awry and they are separated, however, over the span of the next decade or two, they reunite at several locations in Europe, while the times and their attitudes change. It has been selected as the Polish submission to the 91st Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
10. Green Book – Note: Since I made this post, it has come to my attention that the family of Don Shirley has objected to the events as portrayed in the film, especially about his portrayal. I know that the screenplay was written by Nick Vallelonga, one of Tony Lip’s children, and others, and I now am reluctant to recommend the film, as a result. I would’ve liked to see the results of a collaboration between the Shirley and Vallelonga families, but that will not happen at this point.