Next up is Kam Williams a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications around the country and gives us his exhaustive list of Top Tens and Honorable Mentions.

10 Best Big Budget Films

  1. Crazy Rich Asians
  2. Widows
  3. Bohemian Rhapsody
  4. Green Book
  5. Vice
  6. Black Panther
  7. Destroyer
  8. The Hate U Give  
  9. Love, Simon
  10. BlacKkKlansman

Big Budgets Honorable Mention

  1. Ready Player One
  2. Beirut
  3. The Girl in the Spider’s Web
  4. First Man
  5. Superfly
  6. Life of the Party
  7. Uncle Drew
  8. Ben Is Back
  9. Incredibles 2
  10. The Equalizer 2
  11. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
  12. The Other Side of the Wind
  13. Ocean’s 8
  14. A Wrinkle in Time
  15. Night School

10 Best Independent Films

  1. Eighth Grade
  2. Monsters and Men
  3. Private Life
  4. Sorry to Bother You
  5. If Beale Street Could Talk
  6. Blindspotting
  7. Skate Kitchen
  8. Assassination Nation
  9. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  10. Gemini

Independent Films Honorable Mention

  1. Borg vs. McEnroe
  2. Tyrel
  3. Chappaquiddick
  4. Upgrade  
  5. Bad Samaritan
  6. Mid90s
  7. Roxanne Roxanne
  8. Kings
  9. Support the Girls
  10. Vox Lux
  11. Nappily Ever After
  12. Supercon
  13. Unbroken: Path to Redemption
  14. Samson
  15. Midnight Sun

10 Best Foreign Films

  1. Revenge (France)
  2. Cold War (Poland)
  3. Roma (Mexico)
  4. Shoplifters (Japan)
  5. The Guilty (Denmark)
  6. On Her Shoulders (Iraq)
  7. The Citizen (Hungary)
  8. The Resistance Banker (The Netherlands)
  9. I Am Not a Witch (Zambia)
  10. The Road Movie (Russia)

Foreign Films Honorable Mention

  1. Mirai (Japan)
  2. Under the Tree (Iceland)
  3. Girl (Belgium)
  4. The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (Japan)  
  5. Searching for Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)
  6. Kinshasha Makambo (Congo)
  7. November (Estonia)
  8. Lu over the Wall (Japan)
  9. A Twelve-Year Night (Uruguay)
  10. Suspiria (Germany)
  11. Beauty and the Dogs (Tunisia)
  12. Tazzeka (Morocco)
  13. Summer 1993 (Spain)
  14. Ismael’s Ghosts (France)
  15. Fireworks (Japan)

10 Best Documentaries

  1. Active Measures
  2. Three Identical Strangers
  3. Shirkers
  4. Quincy
  5. Science Fair
  6. Alt-Right: Age of Rage
  7. RBG
  8. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
  9. Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
  10. Hal  

Documentaries Honorable Mention

  1. They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
  2. What Lies Upstream
  3. The King
  4. The Gospel According to Andre
  5.   The China Hustle
  6. Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
  7. Where’s Daddy?
  8. The Last Race
  9.   Seeing Allred
  10. The Bleeding Edge
  11. The Final Year
  12. Bad Reputation
  13. Love, Gilda  
  14. Reversing Roe
  15.   Making The Five Heartbeats

 

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