Sundance was a gift that kept on giving all year long with insightful new visions (“Sorry to Bother You,” “Eighth Grade,” “Leave No Trace,” “Hereditary,” “Mandy” and “Blindspotting“) and their usual impressive crop of documentaries (“Won’t You Be My Neighbour,” “Minding the Gap,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “Shirkers,” “Bisbee ’17”). And don’t get me started on Cannes, which, despite the complainers saying that it just isn’t what it used to be, managed to produce more than a handful of the best movies of the year. This was also the year that Netflix garnered the street cred it was craving all these years. Its acquisition of Oscar contender “Roma” was a stroke of genius for the streaming giant, but they also managed to premiere new films from the likes of Joel and Ethan Coen, Alex Garland, Tamara Jenkins, Jeremy Saulnier, Duncan Jones, Nicole Holofcener, Paul Greengrass, Alice Rohrwacher and, perhaps most importantly, Orson Welles, whose “The Other Side of the Wind,” a film 45 years in the making, was finally released and managed to school the young kids into how avant-garde cinema is really done. In fact, “Other Side” could easily contend with the year’s best, with its daring originality ahead of its time, even by today’s standards. After painstakingly narrowing it down, I came up with these ten films as the cream of the crop of 2018. Contribute Hire me
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