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Last film added: January 25, 2021. There are currently 1678 films in the database (since 1996).


    2018 Releases

    Search returned all films from 2018 out of 1678 total rated films.
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    MASTERPIECES
  1. Movie DetailsRoma (2018) 10  With Sex/Nudity
    Cuarón's tender portrayal of a middle-class family's domestic worker in 1970s Mexico City. Dreamlike memoir.
  2. Movie DetailsShoplifters (2018) 10  With Sex/NudityFilmometer Best Film of the Year
    Masterful portrait of a flawed, unusual family trying to survive in Tokyo. Compassionate, socially conscious.

  3. EXCELLENT
  4. Movie DetailsAnnihilation (2018) 9  HorrorMind-blowingSci-Fi
    Natalie Portman joins a perilous expedition into the Shimmer, a quarantined disaster area. Hallucinogenic mystery.
  5. Movie DetailsCold War (2018) 9  Musical/MusicWith Sex/NudityDocumentary/True
    Doomed 1950s romance between a music director and singer, across communist Poland, Berlin, and Paris.
  6. Movie DetailsIsle of Dogs (2018) 9  AnimationComedy
    The mayor of Megasaki, Japan banishes all dogs to Trash Island. Charming Wes Anderson stop-motion.
  7. Movie DetailsMirai (2018) 9  AnimationFantasy
    Parenting two small children in a unique house that reveals family past and future. Magical.
  8. Movie DetailsSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 9  AnimationSci-FiComic Book/Superhero
    Visually ingenious comic-book mashup. Quantum insanity. A Marvel superhero movie that elevates the tired genre.
  9. Movie DetailsWon't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 9  Documentary/True
    An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.

  10. VERY GOOD
  11. Movie DetailsBlack Panther (2018) 8  Sci-FiComic Book/Superhero
    The advanced African kingdom of Wakanda, powered by vibranium, is in transition. Socially conscious Marvel.
  12. Movie DetailsGreen Book (2018) 8  ComedyMusical/MusicDocumentary/TrueAcademy Awards Winner for Best Picture
    Affectionate, predictable comedy about racism and segregation during a 1962 Deep South piano concert tour.
  13. Movie DetailsHappy as Lazzaro (2018) 8  FantasyMind-blowing
    Magical realism fable of a saintly teen sharecropper and a tobacco baroness in rural Italy.
  14. Movie DetailsIncredibles 2 (2018) 8  AnimationComedySci-FiComic Book/Superhero
    Pixar superhero sequel that's much like the original, featuring mysterious villain Screenslaver. Jack-Jack has powers!
  15. Movie DetailsQuiet Place, A (2018) 8  HorrorSci-Fi
    In the post-apocalypse, people live in silence while hiding from blind creatures with supersensitive hearing.
  16. Movie DetailsRBG (2018) 8  Documentary/True
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg's incredible legal legacy since the 1970s. Plus memes of her later years.

  17. GOOD
  18. Movie DetailsBefore I Wake (2018) 7  FantasyHorror
    Parents haunted by their lost child. The surprisingly rewarding payoff redeems the clichéd Canker Man.
  19. Movie DetailsBird Box (2018) 7  HorrorSci-Fi
    An almost unbearable horror that the survival of four-year-olds depends on them carefully following directions.
  20. Movie DetailsFlavors of Youth (2018) 7  AnimationObscure/Rare
    Three stories of formative childhood experiences set in different cities of China. Anime food nostalgia.

  21. FAIR
  22. Movie DetailsAnon (2018) 6  Sci-FiWith Sex/Nudity
    Stylish but contrived. Amanda Seyfried is fun as the mystery hacker. DFE (delete fucking everything).
  23. Movie DetailsErrementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018) 6  FantasyHorror
    Depicts a Basque fable about a cunning blacksmith who makes a pact with the devil.

  24. ADEQUATE
  25. Movie DetailsBeyond, The (2018) 5  Sci-Fi
    Faux-documentary of astronauts, wormholes, cybernetics, alien life. Far-fetched pseudoscience. Solid visual effects.
  26. Movie DetailsCloverfield Paradox, The (2018) 5  HorrorSci-Fi
    Absurd, unstable jumble of sci-fi space horror that connects to the previous two Cloverfield movies.
  27. Movie DetailsDelirium (2018) 5  HorrorObscure/Rare
    Topher Grace, recently released from a mental institute, inherits his father's mansion. Haunted? Or psychosis?
  28. Movie DetailsExtinction (2018) 5  Sci-Fi
    A father is plagued by nightmares of a deadly alien invasion. But there's a twist.
  29. Movie DetailsHow It Ends (2018) 5  Sci-Fi
    After an apocalyptic event, a man travels west toward Seattle. How it ends is stupidly.
  30. Movie DetailsOrbiter 9 (2018) 5  Sci-Fi
    An engineer boards a young woman's spaceship, upends her sense of reality. Promising but unfocused.
  31. Movie DetailsWrinkle in Time, A (2018) 5  FantasySci-Fi
    I watched for the tesseracts. So much promise, an enormous budget, with TV-grade acting. Perplexing.

  32. FROM BAD TO WORSE
  33. Movie DetailsParadox (2018) CRAP  Musical/MusicObscure/RareWith Sex/Nudity
    Daryl Hannah directs outlaw Neil Young in an experimental concert film of supernatural frontier nonsense.


  34. Statistical ratings distribution of these 27 films (1.6% of total rated films):
    With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
    (especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
    Average rating for these 27 films: 7.1.

    10:7.4%

    9:22.2%

    8:22.2%

    7:11.1%

    6:7.4%

    5:25.9%

    CRAP:3.7%



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