It's that time of year when we lock Newshub reviewer Kate Rodger in an edit booth and force her to rate her top 10 films of the year.
She hates picking favourites, especially when she's only allowed 10. But here you have it.
10. John Wick: Chapter 2
Let's kick things off with this guy, because let's face it - John Wick is not very good at retiring.
9. Thor: Ragnarok
Marvel merriment delivered directly into the heart of the mainstream multiplex through the Taiki Waititi kaleidoscope. All Thor all of the time.
8. Blade Runner 2049
It's no mean feat to deliver on the hallowed promise of an original film that changed science-fiction cinema forever, but filmmaker Denis Villeneuve does just that.
7. Baby Driver
Baby Driver is high-octane, top-gear car chase heaven. Maximum acceleration for maximum exhilaration to the beat of Edgar Wright's drum.
6. The Big Sick
The Big Sick is like a delicious cinematic sorbet. It cleanses the palate, boosts your spirits and makes your veins pulse with laughter, love and life.
5. Get Out
Genuinely creepy in the coolest of creepy ways, Get Out is more an enthralling thriller than horror - a delicious mind-bender, the blackest of humour and enduringly provocative.
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Yep, you can likely count on the fact there will be a Star Wars film in my top 10 until the end of recorded time. I am a Star Wars lifer and there isn't one single moment of The Last Jedi I could have lived without.
3. Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk left me physically and emotionally dismantled. This is as visceral as cinema gets.
2. Call Me by Your Name
A love story for the cinematic ages, the intensity of the emotional experience and its aftermath so enduring, each note of each performance is flawless: breath-taking, heart-breaking, life-giving.
1. Logan
My top watch for the year, Logan might as well not even be an X-Men film, or even a superhero film. The emotional stakes were always going to be high; this is Hugh Jackman's last Wolverine outing. He honoured that the best way he knew how - with a bolter of a performance delivering on a brilliant script, crammed with dystopian futuristic energy and blistering action scenes.
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