Top 10 Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)Subscribe: and also Ring the Bell to get notified // Have a Top 10 idea? Submit it to us here!We're finally halfway through the year, which means it's time to rank the best movies of the year so far! We've already had a ton of great movies in 2018, and we're anticipating a whole bunch more for the rest of the year.
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Courtesy of Universal Studios.Midway through a grim year, how nice it was to take for a party, a bit of mourning, and, finally, a baptism. The sequel to the smash-hit 2008 film, itself an adaptation of ABBA’s blockbuster stage show, has to contend with a distinct lack of Meryl Streep—but in that struggle, it finds wit, invention, and surprising depth. Lily James joins the troupe as a younger version of Streep’s character, Donna, and she matches the film’s radiance with her own. ABBA’s songs may be cloying as baklava, but all that sugary sentiment feels proportionate to the lush dimensions of writer-director Ol Parker’s well-calibrated film. Neither high art nor empty act of corporate cynicism, Here We Go Again embodies the giddy bounce of life at its silliest and most delicious. How could anyone resist all of its exuberant energy?
And what’s more, there’s Cher. Happy as Lazzaro. I wasn’t entirely enamored of Alice Rohrwacher’s when I first saw it at the Cannes Film Festival. But in the months since, I’ve been unable to shake its strange poetry.
The frequency on which Rohrwacher broadcasts her film—between dream and nightmare; between sweet, irreverent satire and biting tragedy of socio-economic rot—has an insistent allure. The tale of a simple, agrarian young man who becomes something of a modern-day saint as the lurch of time drags rural peasants into the hardscrabble realities of urbanization, Happy as Lazzaro is very much about the political and economic landscape of Italy. But the film also has a deeper, more universal thrum underscoring that specificity. Rohrwacher is acknowledging, and in some senses lamenting, the end of something rather large—the closing, maybe, of an entire history. She does so with confidently opaque artistry, doing no pandering or simplifying.
For all its harsh symbolism, its often despairing view of people’s potential for harm and exploitation, Happy as Lazzaro still finds many moments of lyrical beauty. Rohrwacher has made a melancholy fairy tale that murmurs in mysterious and captivating tones, making us look up in wonder to consider all its religious allusion while keeping our feet firmly planted in the old, bitter earth of the tangible world. A Star Is Born. By Clay Enos/Warner Bros.Laden with expectation as it was, Bradley Cooper’s version of this well-worn tale could easily have been a mess. What a delight, then, that the film is not only a worthy retelling, but a, a study in the rare science of true star chemistry. As an actor, Cooper has seemed to have an itch under his skin for so long—so coiled and tense in Silver Linings Playbook, so tortured in American Sniper and Burnt—and A Star Is Born feels like a long-overdue release, almost an exorcism.
Sure, he’s playing a dejected mess of a man, but there’s an incredibly appealing looseness to his performance, a kindness that gives the film a crucial warmth. His full-bodied vibe is well met by Lady Gaga, who makes a natural, wholly engaging film debut. The movie looks and sounds great; it never winks or smirks or does anything else to undermine its winning sincerity; and it features one of the best supporting turns of the year in Sam Elliott’s grizzled road manager/older brother. A Star Is Born is a teary and satisfying testament to pouring your heart out, which Cooper and company do with abounding grace and spirit.
Mission: Impossible — Fallout. There are moments in Christopher McQuarrie’s spectacular when series star Tom Cruise seems hell-bent on killing himself. He did, in fact, break an ankle while filming one of Fallout’s rollicking sequences, a testament to his go-for-broke commitment to this franchise. The Mission: Impossible movies have always been a good time, but Fallout is the first of them to fully utilize the potential of film physics.
Whirling high above the mountains of Kashmir in a helicopter and zipping through Paris in one of the new century’s greatest chase scenes, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is an agent of masterfully controlled chaos, the embodiment of action, finally loosed, regarded with both awe and fear. The best action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road, Fallout may be the sixth installment in the M:I series—but in all its grand escalation, it runs like brand new. The Favourite. Share class notes. No less discerning an awards body than the Cannes Film Festival jury (led by Cate Blanchett) recognized Hirokazu Kore-eda’s wrenching and bittersweet film as one of the year’s best, so who am I to not follow suit? Shoplifters is an aching pleasure, a family drama that challenges convention and is rife with moments of quirky humor. Kore-eda imbues his film with the hum and hush of real life, all the necessary detail and texture. He’s a real humanist, and affords dignity to people living on the economic edges without glossing over harder realities.
Shoplifters—about an oddball family adopting a neglected little girl—ambles along softly while building toward a real wallop of an emotional climax: actress Sakura Ando delivering one of the year’s most devastating scenes in unflinching close-up. The movie is pure of heart sans any schmaltz; Kore-eda tells his story with sober, but not cold, clarity. I keep recommending this film to friends with words like “cute” and “sweet,” and then catch myself because it’s also so terribly sad. But it is cute, and it is sweet. It’s just that all of that niceness—so humbly rendered by Kore-eda and his excellent cast—must also contend with difficult things. Which is true of most lives, a universal balance that Kore-eda sensitively illustrates.
Rock climber Alex Honnold scales El Capitan Courtesy of National GeographicNot for the faint of heart, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s would work well enough as simply that, a movie about a guy climbing a tall thing at the risk of life and limb. The climbing footage—of Alex Honnold scaling Yosemite’s El Capitan without any ropes—is ravishing, whether bracingly intimate or zoomed out for boggling scale. But Free Solo is more than just a death-defying sports movie. It’s also a fascinating character study of Honnold, a man whose processing of danger and fear is almost alienly different from most others’. Free Solo also turns a bit meta, with Vasarhelyi and Chin examining the effects and responsibilities of documentary filmmaking. It all bundles together into a sleek and fascinating feature, at once unnerving and triumphant, visceral and cerebral. Your chance to see it on a truly big screen might have passed, but you should at least figure out which of your friends has the largest TV and go watch it at their house.
Honnold’s wild achievement, and Free Solo’s thrilling observation of it, deserve that. Can You Ever Forgive Me? Marielle Heller’s sharp, rueful little movie has not just lingered since I first saw it—it’s only grown in my estimation. A comedy-drama about loneliness and creative frustration, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Avoids easy dyspepsia and instead does something much trickier. Biographer-turned-letter forger Lee Israel is presented without caricature or outsize comedy, a careful portrayal by a never-better Melissa McCarthy.
Heller, working with Jeff Whitty and Nicole Holofcener’s smart script, isn’t afraid to keep her film small and particular, patiently locating and teasing out the drama. McCarthy gets sterling support from Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Spinella, and the marvelous Richard E. Set in wintry 1990s Manhattan, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Has a keen sense of place and time, crucially grounding this curious episode in Israel’s life.
As a depiction of a writer, an artist really, going to extreme lengths to create and survive, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Plumbs some scary recesses. But it maintains a weary bonhomie all the while, moving at a witty patter that encourages you to laugh through the pain. Leave No Trace. By Scott Green/© Bleecker Street Media/Everett Collection.A look at Americans chased off the grid by tragic circumstance, Debra Granik’s first non-documentary film since Winter’s Bone trades that thriller’s frightening grit for a gentle sadness. Which isn’t to say that Leave No Trace is without its own weathered mettle. It’s just that this time around, Granik approaches the American fringes through the framework of a father-daughter drama—a coming-of-age one, too.
As ever, she’s cast impeccably, finding the effortlessly natural young talent Thomasin McKenzie in New Zealand and pairing her with Ben Foster, who here strips himself of the mannered shtick he’s been doing recently to convincingly play a former soldier suffering from P.T.S.D. The way Granik and her actors articulate these characters’ psychologies is always subtle and restrained, and yet there’s passing through the chilly, damp greens of the Pacific Northwest where the movie unfolds. Granik’s artistry is simple and profound, extending true empathy and understanding to lives that hurt and heal and carry on in the margins.
Share.Welcome to IGN's Best of 2018 Awards, where we look back on the best games, movies, TV shows, comic books, anime, and tech the year had to offer.By IGN StaffIGN's Best Movie of the Year category is where we rejoice in our love of movies, celebrating a diverse array of genres, from comic book films to historical dramas to animated flicks to Coen Brothers awesomeness (yes, they are their own genre now). We saw so many terrific films in 2018, but these were the best of the best. See allHugely anticipated video games, some of the most thrilling movies and TV shows in years, exciting strides for comics and anime, and tons of incredible new tech have defined a year full of surprise masterpieces and hidden gems. Best Movie of 2018. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseVotes: 31.8%Studio: SonyThere’s no replacing a comic book legend like Peter Parker, but Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse proves that more “Spider-People” is a very, very good thing. So good, in fact, that it’s IGN’s Best Movie of 2018. Miles Morales’ journey from zero to hero is brought to life with jaw-dropping animation, whimsical callbacks to previous Spider-Man media, and memorable side characters from the multiverse that range from fan-favorite Spider-Gwen to the outright bizarre Spider-Ham. But at the center of the film is the dual stories of the brand new Spider-Man Miles and his washed-up mentor from an alternate dimension.
Both discover the best parts of themselves in their journey together, and we fall in love with both as a result. Taking a bold departure from the Pixar animation style we’ve come to expect from mainstream animated films, Into the Spider-Verse delivers a dynamic visual experience unlike any other. But perhaps most importantly, Spider-Verse feels fresh, different and new in a landscape full of superhero movies. Runner-up: Avengers: Infinity WarVotes: 18.2%Studio: Marvel Avengers: Infinity WarScroll down for our nominees or head to our hub to see more of IGN's top picks of the year.
Avengers: Infinity WarStudio: MarvelFrom: 'Using the strength of its powerful and interesting villain to set the stakes higher than ever, Avengers: Infinity War successfully brings together the past 10 years of Marvel movies into a largely effective cocktail of super-heroic dramatics. The fact that it manages to give nearly every member of its admittedly overstuffed cast at least a moment to shine is its greatest feat. Sure, it ends on a cliffhanger, but those final moments elevate the entire series in a poetic, if horrific, coup de grace.' The Ballad of Buster ScruggsStudio: NetflixFrom: 'Few filmmakers are as playfully cynical as the Coens, and in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs they haven’t just made a funny, sentimental, exciting and blistering western, they’ve also unlocked their entire filmography for anyone who may have missed the connections before.
And there’s no going back now. It’s the Coen Bros.’ world, and good luck to anyone who lives there.' BlacKkKlansmanStudio: FocusFrom: 'BlacKkKlansman is one of Spike Lee’s best movies.
With a dynamite cast, sharp script and pointed humor that underscores real-life, disturbing horrors, it’s an entertaining crime drama that amuses and shocks and invites the audience into a complex and impassioned conversation about the power of racism - and the moving image - to influence our lives.' Black PantherStudio: MarvelFrom: 'Black Panther delivers the goods as an adventure film, a political statement, and a cultural celebration. It shakes off a sluggish start thanks to a memorable cast of characters going up against Marvel’s best-realized villain in almost a decade. Some of the vibrance is drained by cartoonish visual effects that endanger the very human feel of the story, but the emotional weight of its themes and the cast’s compelling performances ultimately keep the film on track. Overall Black Panther is an exciting step forward for the MCU.
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Long live the king!' First ManStudio: UniversalFrom: 'First Man is a stunning cinematic achievement that celebrates one of humanity’s biggest triumphs (and mourns the tragedies that happened leading up to it), yet it never loses sight of its personal and small-scale story about a man going to work.'
Game NightStudio: Warner Bros.From: 'It takes real intelligence to make the best dumb jokes. Game Night has plenty of both, combining skilled filmmaking and ridiculous gags in equal measure, and letting the seriousness and silliness play off of each other for maximum effect.' HereditaryStudio: A24From: 'Hereditary is one of the scariest movies around, and a spectacular showcase for actors Toni Collette and Alex Wolff. The film’s subtle shocks and realistic drama combine to create a dreamlike atmosphere, drenched in psychological horror, which builds and builds to a climax that you won’t forget anytime soon although you may end up wishing the film had let you decipher more of its mysteries for yourself.' A Quiet PlaceStudio: ParamountFrom: 'Part B-movie creature feature, part familial chamber piece, A Quiet Place is a gleeful combo platter of horror tropes that manages to coalesce into something that's both derivative and yet undeniably unique.' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseStudio: SonyFrom: 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse hits all the marks to be an all-around moviegoing blast.
Dushman 1998 hindi movie mp3 songs free download. Miles Morales has a memorable big-screen debut thanks to a compelling story and strong performances from its heroes and villain. Alongside Peter Parker, Miles’ journey from everyday teenager to a genuine city-saving superhero is one of the best Spider-Man movie stories ever.
The addition of other multiverse characters doesn’t overshadow Miles’ story, though Kingpin does get a bit shortchanged. Taking a bold departure from the Pixar animation style we’ve come to expect from mainstream animated films, Into the Spider-Verse delivers a dynamic visual experience unlike any other.' A Star Is BornStudio: Warner Bros.From: 'A Star Is Born is a refreshing take on this classic showbiz rise and fall tale, with updated character work, fantastic performances by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, and a soundtrack that will be stuck in your head for days.'
This is all to say that 2018 has been a banner year for movies, but you’d never know it from a trip to a local multiplex—or from a glimpse at the Oscarizables. The gap between what’s good and what’s widely available in theatres—between the cinema of resistance and the cinema of consensus—is wider than ever. I’ve played a little game with my list this year: after composing it, I rummaged through the box-office numbers to see where each of the films ranked among the six hundred and eighty-two films released to date this year, how much money each took in, and how many theatres each one was released in. Three of the year’s best were shown in more than a thousand theatres (and one on the list is the biggest box-office hit of the year) but the others had releases that ran from limited to virtually nonexistent.
Some of the best movies in the year don’t register at all in terms of ticket sales; they may have played at only one venue for a week, and reported no numbers for their brief runs. Though this came as a shock, it should be no surprise: because of the conceptual and sensory extremes that the best new movies offer, they’re also often a tough sell in theatrical release. In some cases, streaming has filled the gap.
Several of the year’s best movies, such as “Shirkers” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” are being released by Netflix at the same time as (or just after) a limited theatrical run. Others, which barely qualified as having theatrical releases (one theatre for a week), are now available to stream online, on demand, and are more widely accessible to viewers (albeit at home) than films playing at thousands of multiplexes. Yet an impermanence, a threat of disappearance with the flick of a switch, hangs threateningly over independent films that are sent out on streaming (a problem that came to the fore this fall, with, which made a hefty batch of Criterion and TCM films available to stream).This crisis of access has taken new forms in the era of streaming, but it’s in many ways old news; because of changing availability, one generation’s classics are another’s obscurities. But there are also signs of progress. The increasing diversity and originality of artistic ideas in movies is a result of the increasing (though not sufficiently rapidly increasing) diversity in the range of filmmakers, actors, and other collaborators working today. The ostensibly great cinematic eras of the past (like the New Hollywood of the seventies) went hand in hand with the virtual silencing and the invisibility of many of the most original filmmakers of the time—many of them, unsurprisingly, women and people of color.
Today, along with a more varied group of filmmakers working, there is a more varied range of possibilities for their work to be seen and also a more varied range of critics (with a more varied range of platforms) who are likely to bring such work into the spotlight. The current cinema is built on the absences of the past—and their ghostly emanations are also now taking cinematic form. 2018 has been a year of phantom cinema, of film traces that were lost in time and are only now, finally, finding their embodiments. Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” (which is on Netflix) and Sydney Pollack’s (rather, Aretha Franklin’s) “Amazing Grace” were shot in the nineteen-seventies, completed only recently, and released this fall. The late Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah: Four Sisters” was shot in the seventies, and he supplemented and edited those interviews recently (he died in July; it’s his last film).
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Sandi Tan’s “Shirkers” brings together the recovery of her unfinished film from the nineteen-nineties with the lives of its makers and its complex course to its present form. These belated projects are representatives for the voices, past and present, that haven’t come to the fore yet, the rediscoveries—or, rather, reparations—still awaiting their enactment.P.S. There are still some movies awaiting their year-end releases that I haven’t been able to see yet—plus, of course, I haven’t seen all of the year’s nearly seven hundred new releases—so this list may well have some additions. Photograph by Matt Kennedy / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Everett“” (Ryan Coogler)A grandly mythical superhero drama that confronts modern political agonies in complex and resonant ways.“” (RaMell Ross)A virtually handmade, photographically inspired documentary about young adults living in small towns in western Alabama.“” (Bing Liu)A former teen skater in Rockford, Illinois, returns home to make a documentary about his longtime friends’ current lives and reveals harsh truths about their past and his own.