Well, let’s continue my weirdly structured 2019 movie retrospective. As a reminder, this is a retrospective dedicated to the movies I saw in 2019, not just the movies that came out in 2019, so next we’re looking at 2018 Movies I saw in 2019. As we all know, so many of the best movies of the year come out right at the end of the year, so I didn’t get to a lot of the prestige 2018 movies until 2019 had begun. And this is where we slow to a crawl because I’ll be looking at the top ten in three categories, Best Male Performances, Best Female Performances and Best Film, so we’ll take a post for each of those. Next up:
2018 Movies I Saw in 2019
Top 10 Movies
It’s absolutely delightful & wonderful. It’s filled with some really magical & beautiful nature imagery, but it’s also often very funny, sometimes quite sad and, ultimately, surprisingly thoughtful.
Bumblebee is a knockout, full stop, heartfelt and thrilling. Heroic little Bumblebee has pulled off a magnificent feat and, when the others in the series have been forgotten, this little marvel will endure.
It’s kind of amazing just how breathlessly entertaining this is; it’s full of laughs, gasps, thrills and maybe even a couple of tears here and there. The Favourite is grand entertainment.
It’s the pure delight of this chemistry and a script that is surprisingly goofy at times, in a good way, I mean, that makes this movie just dash along at a nice fast pace.
The shots are carefully composed and beautiful, the lighting striking and the colors vivid. This is filmmaking in a kind of classic style that really, really works.
For all its length, it’s a riveting, compelling film that is ultimately both emotionally moving and intellectually thought-provoking.
It’s a deeply moving, harrowing, thought-provoking film that took some turns I didn’t entirely expect and as a second film, it’s kind of as amazing as The Babadook was for a first one, if that makes any sense.
The film is meandering and slowly paced, but I was able to slip into the film’s rhythm without much trouble and the cumulative emotional impact of the film is undeniable.
It’s a truly masterful film, filled with sorrow & pain, reaching a level of real emotional catharsis. It’s not fun, it’s sometimes downright punishing, but it’s brilliant.
It’s compelling, entertaining, deeply disturbing, sometimes harrowing and, ultimately, humanizing. It's a film of deep empathy.