Lester’s Top Films 2018

Lester’s Top Films 2018

1. “A Star is Born”        

2. “First Man”     

3. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”        

4. “Sicario: Day of the Soldaldo” 

5. "A Quiet Place”      

6. “If Beal Street Could Talk”          

7. “BlacKkKlansman”             

8. “Blindspotting”         

9. “Ben is Back”           

10. “The Rider”    

The Guilty - 4.00 Stars – Drama – Denmark – In Subtitles - Jakob Cedergren

Black Panther - 4.00 Stars – Action Drama – Chadwick Boseman

Won’t You Be My Neighbor -- 4.00 Stars – Documentary – PBS’s Mr. Rogers Life Story

Hostiles – 3.75 Stars – Drama – Western – Christian Bale

Collete – 3.75 Stars – Drama – True Story - Keira Knightley

Widows – 3.75 Stars – Drama – Viola Davis – Colin Farrell

A Simple Favor – 3.75 Stars – Drama – Comedy – Anna Kendrick – Blake Lively

Roma – 3.75 Stars – Drama –Subtitles - Marina De Tavira -  NETFLIX ORGINAL

Eighth Grade – 3.75 Stars – Drama – Comedy - Elsie Fisher

Overlord– 3.75 Stars – Drama – Zombie Science Fiction – Wyatt Russell

Avengers: Infinity Wars - 3.50 Stars – Fantasy – Action - Robert Downey – Chris Evans

Isle of Dogs - 3.50 Stars - Drama – Comedy – Animation – Bryan Cranston – Jeff Goldblum 

You Were Never Really Here - 3.50 Stars – Dramatic Violence – Joaquin Phoenix

A Private War -3.50 Stars – Drama – True Story - Rosemund Pike

Mary Poppins Returns -3.50 Stars – Family – Fantasy – Emily Blunt - Colin Wirth

What They Had - 3.50 Stars – Drama – Blythe Danner- Robert Forester – Hillary Swank 

Old Man and a Gun - 3.50 Stars – Drama – True Story - Robert Redford – Sissy Spacek 

Green Book - 3.50 Stars – True Story Family Drama - Mahershala Ali - Viggo Mortensen

The Favourite - 3.50 Stars – True  Story – Drama – Rachel Weisz - Olivia Colman 

Searching - 3.50 Stars – Family Drama - John Cho

Crazy Rich Asians - 3.50 Stars – Romantic - Comedy – Constance Wu – Henry Golding 

Mission Impossible: Fallout - 3.50 Stars – Action Drama – Tom Cruise

Chappaquiddick - 3.50 Stars - Drama – True Story – Jason Clark – Kate Mara

Oh Lucy - 3.50 Stars – Light Comedy – Drama - Subtitles and English – Josh Harnett

Unsane - 3.50 Stars Drama - Claire Foy – Juno Temple

Love, Simon - 3.50 Stars – Light Comedy – Drama - Nick Robinson

VICE – 3.25 Stars – Drama - Christian Bale – Amy Adams – Sam Rockwell – Steve Carell

The Wife – 3.25 Stars – Drama – Glenn Close

American Animals – 3.25 Stars – Drama – True Story - Evan Peters

Bad Times at the El Royale – 3.25 Stars – Drama – Jeff Bridges – Jon Hamm

22 July - 3.25 Stars – Drama – True Story- Jonas Strand Gravli - NETFLIX ORGINAL

Leave No Trace – 3.25 Stars – Drama – Ben Foster

Adrift – 3.25 Stars – Drama – Shailene Woodley

Alpha – 3.25 Stars – Drama – Spencer Bogaert

Game Night – 3.25 Stars – Comedy – Action Thriller - Jason Bateman – Rachel McAdams

Solo: A Star Wars Story - 3.25 Stars - Action - Alden Ehrenreich - Clarke-Woody Harrelson 

Thoroughbreds – 3.25 Stars – Drama - Anya Taylor-Joy - Olivia Cooke - Anton Yelchin

Destroyer – 3.25 Stars – Drama – Nicole Kidman

The Mule – 3.00 Stars – Drama –Clint Eastwood

Asher – 3.00 Stars – Drama – True Story - Ron Perlman – Richard Dreyfus

Mid90s – 3.00 Stars – Directed by Jonah Hill - Sunny Suljic

Revenge – 3.00 Stars – Drama – Partial French Subtitles - Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz

Suge Knight – 3.00 Stars – Documentary – Drama – Hip Hop Mogul Story

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – 3.00 Stars – Action  – Chris Pratt - Bryce Dallas Howard

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs– 3.00 Stars – Western - James Franco NETFLIX ORGINAL

The Death of Stalin – 3.00 Stars - Satire - Drama / Comedy Steve Buscemi

Red Sparrow– 3.00 Stars – Drama _ Jennifer Lawrence – Joel Edgeton - Jeremy Irons

Annihilation – 3.00 Stars – Drama – Sci Fi - Natalie Portman

Night Comes On – 3.00 Stars – Drama – Dominque Fishback

Ready Player One 3.00 Stars – Action – Science Fiction - Tye Sheridan - Olivia Cooke

Beirut 3.00 Stars – Drama – John Hamm

First Reformed - 3.00 Stars – Drama – Ethan Hawke

Sorry to Bother You - 3.00 Stars – Comedy Drama – Lakeith Stanfield

Wildlife – 2.75 Stars – Drama – Carey Mulligan – Jake Gyllenhaal - Ed Oxenbould

Tully – 2.75 Stars – Drama - Charlize Theron

The Sisters Brothers - 2.75 Stars – Drama - Western - Joaquin Phoenix - John C. Reilly

Sweet Country - 2.75 Stars – Drama - Australian - Sam Neill

Predator – 2.50 Stars – Action Drama – Science Fiction - Boyd Holbrook - Jacob Tremblay

Ocean’s 8 – 2.50 Stars – Drama - Sandra Bullock – Cate Blanchett

Disobedience – 2.50 Stars – Drama – Rachel Weisz – Rachel McAdams

Mary Queen of Scots – 2.25 Stars – Drama - Saoirse Ronan - Margot Robbie

Deadpool 2 – 2.25 Stars – Comedy – Fantasy Action – Ryan Reynolds

Sweat Country - 2.00 Stars – Australian Drama – Sam Neil 

Beast – 2.00 Stars – Drama – Johnny Flynn

Hereditary – 2.00 Stars – Horror – Toni Collette – Gabriel Byrne

Support the Girls – 1.75 Stars – Drama - Regina Hall

Tag– 1.75 Stars – Comedy – Jon Hamm – Jeremy Renner – Ed Helms

Blockers – 1.75 Stars – Comedy – John Cena - Ike Barinholtz - Leslie Mann

Lean on Pete – 1.75 Stars – Drama – Charlie Plummer

The 15:17 to Paris – 1.75 Stars – Drama – True Story - Clint Eastwood Film 

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