My Favorite Movies of 2018 -- 10 Runners Up

.

[As mentioned this morning I'm off-line as of this afternoon through Monday night, but I'm giving you a couple of little preview tastes of our 2018 "Golden Trousers" awards, which I'm hoping to have up next week in full.]

So every year in movies is actually a great year in movies if you really stick your face in the thing, but let's just make one thing abundantly clear -- 2018 was a great year for the movies every which way you looked. My list of beloveds runs verrry long and verrry deep -- I could be giving you a Top 50 total and there'd still be flicks I felt irritable over not making that thick cut. (Pour one out for The Guilty, y'all.) So slicing myself down to a Top 30 is as good as I can do. I can't not mention a one of these -- if I tried I would collapse onto a fainting couch and cough blood into a frilly little handkerchief, I swear it.

So here are 10 movies that juuuust missed 

my Top 20, and in alphabetical order...

Annihilation 

(dir. Alex Garland)

-- read my review here --

Burning 

(dir. Lee Chang-dong)

Cam 

(dir. Daniel Goldhaber)
-- read my review here --

Happy As Lazzaro 

(dir. Alice Rohrwacher)

-- read my review here --

If Beale Street Could Talk 

(dir. Barry Jenkins)

-- read my review here --

Lean on Pete 

(dir. Andrew Haigh)

-- read my review here --

Nancy 

(dir. Christina Choe)

-- read my review here --

The Sisters Brothers 

(dir. Jacques Audiard)

-- read my review here --

Summer 1993 

(dir. Carla Simón)

-- read my review here --

You Were Never Really Here 

(dir. Lynne Ramsay)

---------------------------------

COMING SOON: My Top 20
and the rest of our awards for 2018.

.

.