Favourite (and less favoured) films of 2018

[Sean of the Shed]

Favourite:
BlacKkKlansman

Close seconds:
Avengers: Infinity War
Isle of Dogs

Also enjoyed:
Black Panther
The Death of Stalin
Deadpool 2
Incredibles 2
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Okay:
Venom
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Equalizer 2
Bohemian Rhapsody

Disappointing:
Ready Player One
Pacific Rim Uprising
Tomb Raider
Early Man
The Cloverfield Paradox
The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Dogshit:
Den of Thieves
There are likely worse films, but I'm never gonna give films such as Peter Rabbit and the latest Robin Hood film to ever have the chance to burn themselves on to my retinas.

[Patrick Thistle]

Really enjoyed
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Coco
Solo
Ant-Man and The Wasp

Thought were OK
Black Panther
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Incredibles 2

Disappointed
Ready Player One
Avengers: Infinity War

Instantly forgettable
Ocean's 8

Probably the two best films I saw for the first time this year were Casablanca and Some Like it Hot.

[Fussbudget]

My local arthouse screen is always a few weeks behind in showing new releases, so I might need to come back in a month or so to edit my post once I've caught up with a few more 2018 films I want to see, but for now:

brilliant:
You Were Never Really Here
Lady Bird
Custody

great:
Beast
Annihilation
Phantom Thread
First Reformed

v. good:
The Shape of Water
Widows
Leave No Trace
Unsane

curate's egg:
Suspiria
Hereditary
I, Tonya

hated it:
A Quiet Place

[sw2borshch]

I, Tonya needs three promotions.

[gt3]

On Saturday I went to see Mary Poppins Returns. Probably not the best film of the year, but quite frankly harder to think of one I enjoyed more this year.

You Were Never Really Here and Blackkklansman were probably my films of the year. Also an honourable mention for Sicario 2 and especially its soundtrack.

[DCI Harry Batt]

My local arthouse screen is always a few weeks behind in showing new releases, so I might need to come back in a month or so to edit my post once I've caught up with a few more 2018 films I want to see, but for now:

brilliant:
You Were Never Really Here
Lady Bird
Custody

great:
Beast
Annihilation
Phantom Thread
First Reformed

v. good:
The Shape of Water
Widows
Leave No Trace
Unsane

curate's egg:
Suspiria
Hereditary
I, Tonya

hated it:
A Quiet Place

That's a lot of fillums. Fair play to you.

[Ray de Galles]

Favourite films of the year

Avengers - Infinity War
Isle of Dogs
A Star Is Born

Highly Commended

Molly’s Game
I, Tonya
Black Panther
The Shape of Water
Early Man
The Happy Prince
Ant-Man and The Wasp
The Little Stranger
The Boy Downstairs
First Man
Tag

OK

Ready, Player One
Deadpool 2
Solo : A Star Wars Story
Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom
Sicario 2 : Soldado
Skyscraper
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mission Impossible : Fallout

Disappointments

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Post
BlackKklansman

Largely awful

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
King of Thieves

[Ray de Galles]

Also enjoyed:

The Death of Stalin

Point of order, an October 2017 release so surely not eligible?

[Sean of the Shed]

Point of order, an October 2017 release so surely not eligible?

It was listed in Wikipedia's Films of 2018 as March 2018, but on closer inspection they appear to be listed by US release date. The timeline didn't seem right at the time but I didn't bother to look closer. It also explains why you listed The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and I didn't, both of which I rated highly.

[Jon]

Teen titans go to the movies deserves a mention. It's excellent.

[Patrick Thistle]

I saw 'Bumblebee' last night. It was OK but not as good as I hoped it would be after seeing the trailer.

[ad hoc]

Obviously I see a lot fewer films than most on here but the ones that you have all mentioned that I've seen

Excellent : Three billboards...
Very good : Blackkklansman
Good : American Animals*
Good in parts : Bohemian Rhapsody
Meh: Guernsey literary potato thingy
Standard action movie fare, well made but saying nothing to me about my life, with good and rubbish bits in as befits the genre: Oceans 8; Infinity War; Mission Impossible umpteen

*no-one mentioned this one but it was pretty well made

[Bored Of Education]

I saw three films in the cinema this year and enjoyed them all even thought none were classics - BoRap, Three Billboards.. and Solo.

As you were.

[Bored Of Education]

Probably the two best films I saw for the first time this year were Casablanca and Some Like it Hot.

Saw Casablanca for the first time last year and really enjoyed it. Some Like It Hot was my favourite film ever until I conceded I was being arch and, of course, it was "Star Wars"

[Ray de Galles]

Can’t think quite where to put this but sad to see that the BBC have managed to crash what was a near-perfect format due to terrible presenter and scheduling choices :

BBC cancels long-running Film review show

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

Best, by miles: Roma
Will watch again: Isle of dogs, Deadpool 2, You were never really here
Not brilliant but enjoyed childishly: Ready player one
Boring and almost turned off: First man, Black Panther
Nice surprise: Lady Gaga's acting

Most memorable documentary: Grace Jones-Bloodlight and Bami, Studio 54

Note to self: Don't watch another movie about famous painters. At eternity's gate with Willem Dafoe about van Gogh was predictably tedious, as was Pollock, Mr.Turner, Frida etc.

[elguapo4]

Can’t think quite where to put this but sad to see that the BBC have managed to crash what was a near-perfect format due to terrible presenter and scheduling choices :

BBC cancels long-running Film review show

When I first watched it, it was on at 10.15 pm with Barry Norman, when I last saw it, it was on at 12.45 pm with Claudia Winkleman, the BBC have been trying to get rid of it since Norman was presenting it.
It would be a perfect 7.30 pm show on BBC4 so long as they found a decent presenter who obviously loved film as much as Barry did.

[Logan Mountstuart]

Best film I saw by Miles last year was Dogman.

And really enjoyed Molly's Game and Three Billboards.

[WOM]

I'm fascinated by Black Panther simultaneously showing up on both best-of and worst-of lists. I'd never been so bored in my life. Others thought it was brilliant.

[San Bernardhinault]

I thought Black Panther was not terrible for a comic book movie, but that's an exceptionally low bar. It was silly but watchable.

Genuinely good new films that I watched in 2018 (most of these were before the 2018 Oscars):

- Three Billboards
- I Tonya
- Lady Bird
- The Florida Project

Fascinating, but I still don't know if it was good

- Annihilation
- Tully
- The Shape of Water

Way Better than expected

- Game Night

The kind of film you're entertained to stream on a random night, but not worth much more comment:

- Black Panther
- Christopher Robin
- Skyscraper
- Tag
- Adrift
- The Post

Wonderfully bad disaster movie

- The Hurricane Heist

Disappointing

- Early Man
- Oceans 8
- The Spy Who Dumped Me

Almost unwatchably bad

- The Leisure Seeker
- Blockers
- Mamma Mia 2
- Call Me By Your Name
- Phantom Thread
- Darkest Hour

[Lang Spoon]

I found Dunkirk fucking rubbish but maybe that’s my Nolan hatred tainting it. It was no darkest hour though. That Tube scene, I mean fuck sake. Even if Churchill didn’t order the troops against Welsh Miners or Red Clydeside George Square he was one of the most horrible bastards of the century. Just lucky who else was around. I’d like to see an Indian biopic of the cunt.

[Ray de Galles]

Dunkirk came out in July of 2017.

[Lang Spoon]

I’m always living in the past.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

I've no idea what came out in 2017 or 2018, but I know I loved 'Isle of Dogs'.

[San Bernardhinault]

I know that a bunch on my list were released in 2017, because they were Oscar Bait, but I didn't watch them until closer to Oscar season.