Whereas last year I only listed fiction films among my Top 10 for this site, this year I have split my choices evenly between documentaries and narratives, picking 5 of each from my Top 10 in those respective categories. If you want to see a longer, more inclusive list, please head on over to my blog, where you will see all of the many movies that gave me more than a mere modicum of viewing pleasure. It was, indeed, a great year for cinema, and I am happy to celebrate the enormous variety of offerings for all to see.
Here, then, in alphabetical order, is my 2018 Film Festival Today Top 10. Since I have previously reviewed all of these, I hyperlink the titles to those reviews (whether on this site or on Hammer to Nail, where I also write). Enjoy!
- Capernaum
- First Reformed
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
- Nancy
- RBG
- The Rider
- Three Identical Strangers
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator, as well as Film Festival Today's Editor. A member of both the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, Chris is, in addition, lead film critic at Hammer to Nail and the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice.