The 10 best films of 2018 (so far)

If there’s one thing we’ll say for 2018, it’s that it’s given us a lot of great films. We’re only halfway through the year and already we’ve seen dozens of things we’ve liked, even loved, across all categories – comedies and tragedies, gazillion-dollar blockbusters and low-key indies. 

Below, here are some of our absolute favorites.

10Leave No Trace 

Writer-director Debra Granik travels even further out to the fringes of society than she did in Winter’s Bone, this time focusing on a traumatized vet father and his teenage daughter, enjoying an idyllic, if unconventional, life out in the wild. But when society catches up to them and forces them to go back on the grid, they’re torn between her desire for a community, and his inability to be part of one. Read more…

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