The Peoples Movies – Best Films Of 2018 (The Writers)

2019 will be with us in less than seven days, we still have time to deliver our 2018 Best Films lists. Let’s get one thing straight, everyone is different so are there tastes in film. When you look at the lists below you’ll see many films loved by several writers and loathed by others.

We love this.

It’s the time of the year film critics, film bloggers, cinephiles. social media warriors share their best ( and worst) films of the year. We also like to see how vicious some social media warrior when critics don’t share the same love or hatred for certain films. That’s why we call ourselves film fans than critics.

Was 2018 a better year than 2017? Really hard to tell, but what we believe in, is films for all. 2018 was the year diversity became even more important in films. Bringing equality to the big screen and reminds us of our motto ‘film for all’. Female-led films in genres usually associated as male-led, Superhero film with a predominantly black cast. Films that made you socially aware of racism and police brutality, LGBTQ film rightly released in the mainstream cinema. Widows, Ocean’s Eight, Black Panther, Hate U Give and Love, Simon our game changers.

This was also the year Netflix took on cinema making the gap between the small and the big screen smaller. Releasing a number of critically acclaimed films that are now in line for possible Oscar contention. Annihilation, Roma, Outlaw King, Bird Box all directed by leading filmmakers starring A-list actors. If they get nominated or not, Netflix can’t be ignored by the mainstream as they’ll be around for a long time.

So what about our best films? Below a few of our writers have shared their own best films of 2018. Some you may agree with, others you’ll disagree with. The lists are not in order of preference as we see equal qualities in all.

Look out for our Worst Films of 2018, coming soon.

Writers Top Ten

Georgia May| @georgia__x_
A Quiet Place
Isle of Dogs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
You Were Never Really Here
Roma
First Man
Bohemian Rhapsody
A Prayer Before Dawn
Mandy
If Beale Street Could Talk

Pierre Brown | @Umbra_Witch
Suspiria
Hereditary
A Star Is Born
Black Panther
Ant-Man And The Wasp
Love, Simon
Deadpool 2
A Quiet Place
Incredibles 2
Suspiria (Again, I loved it so much).

Aly Lalji 
1. Bad Times at the El Royale
2. Bohemian Rhapsody
3.Avengers: Infinity War
4. A Simple Favour
5. A Star is Born
6. Sicario 2: Soldado
7. The Hate U Give
8. Crazy Rich Asians
9. BlaKkKlansman
10. Halloween

Shane A.Bassett | @Movie Analyst
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Isle of Dogs
Suspiria
Vox Lux
Bad Times at the El Royale
A Quiet Place
Red Sparrow
Love, Simon
Sorry to Bother You

Freda Cooper | @FredaTalkingPix
Roma
Leave No Trace
Lady Bird
Shoplifters
Incredibles 2
Columbus
Three Billboards
In The Fade
Phantom Thread
Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Alex Straker
Avengers: Infinity War
Marvel’s Black Panther
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born
Suspiria
A Quiet Place
Crazy Rich Asians
BlackKklansman
Searching
Hereditary

Peter Fletcher | @PeterFletcher27
Hereditary
Dark River
Lean on Pete
Funny Cow
American Animals
Widows
Disobedience
The Square
Deadpool 2
Ghost Stories

Scott J.Davis | @scottwritesfilm
1. You Were Never Really Here
– absolutely gripping film from Lynne Ramsey with possibly Phoenix’s best performance, that is both a tense thriller and a character study of grief, loss and the lasting traumas of war. Spellbinding.
2. Leave no trace
3. Columbus
4. Mission Fallout
5. Wildlife
6. Molly’s Game
7. Shoplifters
8. A Quiet Place
9. BlackKklansman
10. The Shape of Water.

Rachael Jess | @RachelJessBlog
Avengers Infinity Wars
the Star
Christmas Chronicles
Incredibles 2
Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald
ready player one
the man who invented Christmas
the Guernsey literary potatoes peel pie society
Peter Rabbit

Paul Devine | @JPaulDevine / @thepeoplesmovie
Mission Impossible: Fallout
You Were Never Really Here
A Quiet Place
American Animals
Mandy
Sweet Country
Hereditary
Suspiria
A Simple Favour
Beast

Honourable Mentions: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, The Third Murder, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Searching, Bad Times At El Royale, Coco, Avengers: Infinity War