The Best Movies of 2018

Paddington 2 (2018)

Rating：

7.8

Director: Anna Worley, Jack Ravenscroft, John Farrall-Miles Stars: Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant

Summary: Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Creed II (2018)

Rating：

7.1

Director: Steven Caple Jr., Dawn Gilliam, Xanthus Valan Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson

Summary: Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.

Green Book (2018)

Rating：

8.2

Director: Josh Klausner, Nicole Garcea, Andrew Shepherd Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini

Summary: Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Eighth Grade (2018)

Rating：

7.4

Director: Bo Burnham, Sam Evoy, Vic Coram Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

Boy Erased (2018)

Rating：

6.9

Director: Joel Edgerton, Jean-Paul Chreky, Michael J. Moore Stars: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe

Summary: Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

Black Panther (2018)

Rating：

7.3

Director: Ryan Coogler, Darrin Prescott, Andy Gill Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o

Summary: King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Rating：

7.1

Director: Chelsea Ryan, Karen Kane, Rebecca Breckel Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells

Summary: When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Rating：

7.5

Director: Spike Lee, Mike Ellis, Alexandra Torterotot Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace

Summary: Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Rating：

7.7

Director: Nicoletta Mani, Christopher McQuarrie, Wade Eastwood Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

Summary: When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

mid90s (2018)

Rating：

7.3

Director: Jonah Hill, Scott Robertson, Spencer Taylor Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges

Summary: In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.