My Favorite Films of 2018

"If someone hits you and tells you they are doing it because they love you, they are a liar."

Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
Written by Hirokazu Koreeda
Music by Haruomi Hosono
Cinematography by Ryûto Kondô
Editing by Hirokazu Koreeda

"That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero."

Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
Written by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman
Music by Daniel Pemberton
Cinematography by
Editing by Robert Fisher Jr.

"The end you've always feared is coming. And the blood will be on your hands. The fallout of all your good intentions."

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Written by Christopher McQuarrie
Music by Lorne Balfe
Cinematography by Rob Hardy
Editing by Eddie Hamilton

"I thought I was a man. I had a life. People called me Kane. And now I'm not so sure. If I wasn't Kane, what was I? Was I you? Were you me?"

Directed by Alex Garland
Written by Alex Garland
Music by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
Cinematography by Rob Hardy
Editing by Barney Pilling

"You know, this sounds like a fucking gangster movie. Don't you think so?"

Directed by Timo Tjahjanto
Written by Timo Tjahjanto
Music by Aria Prayogi and Fajar Yuskemal
Cinematography by Gunnar Nimpuno
Editing by Arifin Cu'unk

"I never wanted to be your mother."

Directed by Ari Aster
Written by Ari Aster
Music by Colin Stetson
Cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski
Editing by Lucian Johnston and Jennifer Lame

"As it turns out, I'm capable of much unpleasantness."

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
Music by
Cinematography by Robbie Ryan
Editing by Yorgos Mavropsaridis

"I like being dead."

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Written by Alfonso Cuarón
Music by
Cinematography by Alfonso Cuarón
Editing by Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough

"Don't let my white duds and pleasant demeanor fool ya. I, too, have been known to violate the statutes of man... and not a few of the laws of the Almighty!"

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Written by Joel and Ethan Coen
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel
Editing by Joel and Ethan Coen

"Love and manipulation, they share houses very often. They are frequent bedfellows."

Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Written by David Kajganich
Music by Thom Yorke
Cinematography by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Editing by Walter Fasano

"Black Power also means that we must unite. We must unite and we must organize a base to fight racism! To fight our oppressors!"

Directed by Spike Lee
Written by Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography by Chayse Irvin
Editing by Barry Alexander Brown

"Charlie, when you kill a man, you end up with his father or his friends on your tail. It usually ends badly."

Directed by Jacques Audiard
Written by Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by Benoît Debie
Editing by Juliette Welfling

"Do I make you sad? I don't know. Sometimes I think that when I'm older, I'll have a daughter of my own or something... and I feel like if she was like me, then being her mum would make me sad all the time."

Directed by Bo Burnham
Written by Bo Burnham
Music by Anna Meredith
Cinematography by Andrew Wehde
Editing by Jennifer Lilly

"I always said he should burn in hell. But Chicago will do."

Directed by Steve McQueen
Written by Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Sean Bobbitt
Editing by Joe Walker

"Oh look at you! Everything that you've hoped for, that you've dreamed about being a part of, is a fabrication. Your art, your writing, your culture is the shell of other men's ambitions - ambitions beyond what you will ever understand."

Directed by David Robert Mitchell
Written by David Robert Mitchell
Music by Disasterpeace
Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis
Editing by Julio Perez IV

"You're taught your entire life that what you do matters and that you're special. And that, there are things you can point towards that would... which'll show that you're special, that show you're different, when, in all reality, those things... don't matter. And you're not special."

Directed by Bart Layton
Written by Bart Layton
Music by Anne Nikitin
Cinematography by Ole Bratt Birkeland
Editing by Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill and Julian Hart

"You are a vicious snowflake."

Directed by Panos Cosmatos
Written by Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn
Music by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Cinematography by Benjamin Loeb
Editing by Brett W. Bachman

"I just wanted to take another look at you."

Directed by Bradley Cooper
Written by Bradley Cooper, Eric Roth and Will Fetters
Music by
Cinematography by Matthew Libatique
Editing by Jay Cassidy

"The same thing that's wrong with you isn't wrong with me."

Directed by Debra Granik
Written by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Music by Dickon Hinchliffe
Cinematography by Michael McDonough
Editing by Jane Rizzo

"I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but I don't think it'll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it'll be more the fact that it allows us to see things. That maybe we should have seen a long time ago. But just haven't been able to until now."

Directed by Damien Chazelle
Written by Josh Singer
Music by Justin Hurwitz
Cinematography by Linus Sandgren
Editing by Tom Cross

"I cannot allow us to be killed."

Directed by Leigh Whannell
Written by Leigh Whannell
Music by Jed Palmer
Cinematography by Stefan Duscio
Editing by Andy Canny

"Everybody has a dark side. Some of us are better at hiding it than others."

Directed by Paul Feig
Written by Jessica Sharzer
Music by Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography by John Schwartzman
Editing by Brent White

"Everybody has a dark side. Some of us are better at hiding it than others."

Directed by David Gordon Green
Written by David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley
Music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel A. Davies
Cinematography by Michael Simmonds
Editing by Timothy Alverson

"Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey."

Directed by Drew Goddard
Written by Drew Goddard
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography by Seamus McGarvey
Editing by Lisa Lassek

"Welcome, Cassius Green. I hope you have not masturbated today. We need you sharp and ready to go."

Directed by Boots Riley
Written by Boots Riley
Music by Boots Riley, Nate Brenner, Merrill Garbus, Tune-Yards and The Coup
Cinematography by Doug Emmett
Editing by Terel Gibson