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# My Favorite Movies of 2018
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/my-favorite-movies-of-2018/
- Published: 2019-02-24T14:15:34.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-24T14:15:34.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: movie, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

The Oscars are tonight, which means it’s time for me to put together my list of the best movies I saw in 2018\. Below are my top 10, and at the bottom I have a lit of everything I saw this year and what I still want to see.

## 1\. Annihilation

![](https://birchtree.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/E314FEED-5AA4-4FE9-853A-5FF345D6131A.jpeg) 

Annihilation is an exploration of depression and loss in the guise of science fiction. This movie feels similar to 2017’s Mother (which I also loved) in that it starts relatively normal and slowly devolves into madness. It’s a completely different movie by the end, and I love that about it.

Natalie Portman gives another excellent performance that reveals layers of emotion without a big, showy performance, and the entire supporting cast does fantastic work to flesh out the world. The script is tight, and managed to speak to me in a very specific way that connected with me hard.

And finally, I can’t talk about this movie without talking about the cinematography. This movie had more memorable visuals than the other 9 movies on this list combined. The movie was shot by Rob Hardy, who doesn’t have many feature film credits, but did Mission: Impossible - Fallout this year as well. This guy has a bright future.

## #2-9

![](https://birchtree.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/E51E175A-577E-4548-85A5-042B3DD3EDAF.jpeg) 

Below are one sentence teasers for the rest of the films on my top 10 and why they beat out the competition.

**2\. BlacKkKlansman** was a roaring good time that comments on the current political and racial climate without directly talking about the current day…until it does.

**3\. Won't You Be My Neighbor** hit me in all the ways I prayed this film would, and made me appreciate Fred Rodgers’ contribution to the world more than I did already.

**4\. Black Panther** is a Marvel superhero film with tons of style and substance that broke me out of the superhero movie slump I’d been in for the last several years.

**5\. Susperia** is a weird-ass movie and I can absolutely see why some people would make it their worst movie of 2018, but this isn’t their list, it’s mine :)

**6\. A Star is Born** is an achievement for any director, let alone first time director Bradley Cooper, who made me feel invested in a story about musicians more than maybe any music-based movie ever.

**7\. Avengers: Infinity War** is the second Marvel movie on this list, which again is not something I would have expected a year ago, and now “I don’t feel so good.”

**8\. The Favourite** is another weird ass movie and it comes together better than it has any right to.

**9\. Game Night** is flat out the funniest movie I saw all year and is good fun for basically everyone.

**10\. Crazy Rich Asians** got its hooks in me somehow and never let me go…those are indeed some very, very, crazy rich Asians.

## Everything Else I Saw in 2018

- A Wrinkle in Time
- Isle of Dogs
- Ready Player One
- Blockers
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Ocean's 8
- Incredibles 2
- Mission Impossible Fallout
- Juliet, Naked
- A Simple Favor
- Searching
- The Girl in the Spider's Web
- Vice

## What I Missed but Want to See

- You Were Never Really Here
- First Reformed
- Ant Man and the Wasp
- Bad Times at the El Royale
- Halloween
- Widows
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Roma
- Shoplifters
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse