2018: MY FAVORITE MOVIES OF THE YEAR (ranked)

First, a confession. Overall, I watched fewer movies than last year. I did not attend as many festivals as usual – my preferred way of consuming moving images – and I rarely visit movie theatres these days*. This explains the absence of some festival darlings like Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Koreeda Hirokazu’s Shoplifters, Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, and Mariano LLinàs’s La Flor among others. So, this list has an inevitable home video feel to it. At any rate – no pun intended – not only this selection is ranked, but also stratified. There is a...