The Optimist's Top 10 Favs of 2018
Another year has come and gone, and with it a slew of awesome (and not so awesome) movies! 2018 featured some of the greatest pieces of cinema to date, with story arcs that have been building over many years, to new and excitingly original stories for the masses. It’s no small thing to say that I love movies, and the cinema is my home away from home. I’ve really enjoyed this year’s bout of films, and though there were many, only a few have risen to the top of my list. For this year’s list, I’m not sharing, necessarily, what I think were the “best” films of 2018, but ones that ended up being my favorites of the year. Coincidentally, a lot of these picks I could easily argue were some of 2018’s best and will probably be talked about in depth come award season. At any rate, here is my Top 10 of 2018, in no particular order. Annihilation When you go to the movies, or at least when I go to the movies, I want to be transported away. Movies are pure escapism, set withi