This has been a tumultuous, surprising and, in the end, rewarding year for films. Sundance was a gift that kept on giving nearly all year with sharp new talent and seemingly a full year's worth of notable documentaries.
A Netflix-deprived Cannes looked better in retrospect than it did to Cannes-Is-Finished grumps at the time. There were a handful of very good straightforward commercial films. And both the Venice/Telluride/Toronto festival triumvirate and the year's end yielded a fine crop of diverse attractions.
And, speaking of diversity, there was a good deal of that, too, as the awards season thus far has borne out.
Here were my 10 favorite films of 2018. — by Todd McCarthy
