My Top 160+ Movies for 2018... so far (and in list order)
Another year of movies and other moving images... (and in list order)
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- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.Another Cuarón visual treat that is simple but yet so effective...
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleAmy AdamsSteve CarellThe story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.A hard hitting satire on the evil doings of Cheney, told with cinematic flair and an engaging storytelling device...
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloElena Sofia RicciRiccardo ScamarcioAn escort-service owner uses his girls to get close to politician/PM and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, but in 2006 he's preoccupied with his shaky marriage and losing an election.Sorrentino once again places the microscope over Italy's political dilemma and dissects Berlusconi's parasite infestation over a nation under the drug of TV game shows, sex and hypnotic lies, all told in a creative grandiose stylised manner...
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsTom SchillingSebastian KochPaula BeerGerman artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.Intriguing life of a German artist, from his childhood in the 1930s till his success in the Sixties, all captured with perfect melodramatic flare...
- DirectorJonah HillStarsSunny SuljicKatherine WaterstonLucas HedgesFollows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.Jonah Hill exquisitely captures the period with a neorealism style and superb performances from the young actors that you'd think came from that era...
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsSteve CarellMaura TierneyJack Dylan GrazerBased on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.A well composed drama that doesn't go melodramatic and loud over the harsh subject of drugs, instead it deals with it sensibly, showing enough love and care as parents would give to their addicted child...
- DirectorBradley CooperStarsLady GagaBradley CooperSam ElliottA musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.The performances won me in this fine drama...
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChao DengLi SunRyan ZhengIn a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.Zhang at the top of his game in this cinematic splendor...
- DirectorWayne RobertsStarsJohnny DeppRosemarie DeWittOdessa YoungA college professor lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.Wayne Roberts digs deep on what really matters in life, especially when one is near death's door, and Depp adds to the quirkiness of it all. A future cult classic...
- DirectorMaryam KeshavarzStarsSusan SarandonMatt BomerLola KirkeA war correspondent gets taken hostage while on assignment, prompting his mother, impatient with the government's lack of concern, to take matters into her own hands.Iranian director Keshavarz returns after a seven year hiatus with this fine cinematic work that is reminiscent of a Ken Loach or Mike Leigh style of filmmaking, and Sarandon is absolutely breathtaking...
- DirectorBart LaytonStarsSpencer ReinhardWarren LipkaEric BorsukFour young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.Layton utilizes his documentary skills to uniquely tell this tale of young misfits and their regrets in life...
- DirectorPeter FarrellyStarsViggo MortensenMahershala AliLinda CardelliniA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.A film with heart thanks to script and performances...
- DirectorTamara JenkinsStarsKathryn HahnPaul GiamattiGabrielle ReidAn author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge.A well thought out story with the perfect casting and sensitive direction...
- DirectorLuis OrtegaStarsLorenzo FerroCecilia RothLuis GneccoThe angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.The cheeky and brazen criminal activity of a delusional sociopath teenager...
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsRosamund PikeAlexandra MoenTom HollanderOne of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.This is a war correspondent's journey into hell, and Colvin took that path in order to tell the most neglected story on the war front, that of the innocent civilians caught up in the Middle Eastern mêlée post 9/11, with Pike convincing as Colvin...
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsRyan GoslingClaire FoyJason ClarkeA look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.Writer and director get perfectly into the mindset of Armstrong with the help of Gosling in one of the finest astronaut movies since the Right Stuff...
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMatthias SchoenaertsLéa SeydouxPeter SimonischekThe 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.The incompetence and arrogance of a government protecting its pride that jeopardizes the lives of submarine sailors in this intriguing political drama...
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsRami MalekLucy BoyntonGwilym LeeThe story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).Yes, Malek is amazing, but wish it spent some time with the other band members, still a fascinating account on the geniuses of Queen the band...
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsBryan CranstonKoyu RankinEdward NortonSet in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.Anderson's unique visual storytelling style and tone works a treat on this animation...
- DirectorJennifer FoxStarsLaura DernJason RitterCommonA woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.A well constructed true story told creatively via the craft of a documentary maker's tough experience...
- DirectorJesse PeretzStarsChris O'DowdRose ByrneEthan HawkeAnnie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) has an unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.Another classic Nick Hornby book that translates to the screen perfectly thanks to a great cast and wonderful dialogue...
- DirectorBo BurnhamStarsElsie FisherJosh HamiltonEmily RobinsonAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.Perfectly realised and thoroughly engaging observation of a cringing period in life that we all have been through, either as a student or a parent...
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsHugh JackmanVera FarmigaJ.K. SimmonsIn 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.Reitman gives it the Altman treatment with some humorless VEEP thrown in and Jackman slots in perfectly, delivering a warning piece about the political predicament and media shemozzle we're in at the moment...
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMarcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.Fonte is brilliant as Marcello, the dog groomer who mixes with the wrong crowd in the slums of Napoli that alters his life...
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDogu DemirkolMurat CemcirBennu YildirimlarAn unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.A poignant tale of a disillusioned young man who returns to his home town in hope of publishing his first book, but is sidetracked by encounters with the locals and his dream shattering father...