While television’s recent Golden Age may be on the wane, with no Sopranos-caliber show for the past few years, cinema’s luster shines ever bright. In 2018, I saw almost 175 films, with 42 of them making my first cut for this list. The list’s diversity only enhances my point, as it includes the genres of comedy, horror, and western, as well as historical and contemporary documentaries. The directors of my top 13 films include two first-timers, as well as a 40-year veteran (Paul Schrader) directing his finest ever, and the Coen Brothers (directing since 1984) crafting their best film in almost a decade.And if you include the works deserving of honorable mention, I count 13 countries represented by setting or director’s origin. Even the venues for great cinema are expanding, as I watched my top films at two festivals, three art house cinemas, my local multiplex, and streaming TV. So, here they are in ascending order, with those meriting honorable mention listed alphabetically at the end: 13) Hereditary Hands down, the smartest, most disturbing horror movie I saw this year: Ari Aster shows an astonishing expertise in his feature directing debut. Aster (he also wrote the screenplay) mines the depths for… Read full this story
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