As the cinematic year draws to close there is nothing Kate Rodger loves to do more than cast her mind back over her best films of the year.
Here she is with her top 10 for 2018.
10) A Quiet Place
John Krasinski stars alongside and directs his own wife Emily Blunt in this terrifically-told tale of no sound and much fury.
It is so clever in its simplicity, building tension so excruciatingly well, that I was left a quivering, shaking, giggling, freaked-out, hot mess. Brilliant.
9) Black Panther
Writer and director Ryan Coogler ushers into the mainstream a superhero story that thunders home global themes of racial and gender inequality and first world greed - all wrapped up as a big screen blockbuster with one of cinema's most nuanced bad guys.
It's a powerful package. Wakanda forever? Yes please.
8) Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Here is a simple universal truth - there's no substitute for the real thing as the Cruisinator once again risks life and limb.
The last half of this film could be one of the most breathtakingly exhilarating, continuously flowing action set-pieces I've ever seen on the big screen.
7) A Fantastic Woman
Daniela Vega is a luminous star, deservedly taking out the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
The key to the humanity in this captivating story is in the truly accessible way it's told - simply and without affectation. This is a simmering, elegant knockout of a film.
6) Lean On Pete
Charlie Plummer's performance here is one of my year's standouts.
He brings an incredibly internalised and restrained vulnerability to a role he could have so easily over-amplified, helped in no small way by director Andrew Haig staying true to the nature of his central character.
5) The Breaker Upperers
This wonderful womance between Mel and Jen who run a business together servicing the needs of those who are simply too weak or too uninventive to end their own relationships is - just like the poster says - hilarious, genuinely laugh-out-loud, and laced with a whole lot of heart.
It's also even funnier on repeat.
4) Avengers: Infinity War
If you've invested the last 10 years of your life into the Marvel Cinematic Universe then Avengers: Infinity War was a dream come true, barrelling from the dark into the light and back again, with humour where it counts, action where we needed it and emotion when we least expected it. Roll on Avengers: Endgame!
3) A Star Is Born
Watch as Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper power their way through to award season.
Cooper's on-screen presence is matched only by the restraint and tenderness of his storytelling as director. You will need a jumbo box of tissues - prepare to be well and truly rinsed by the time the final credits roll.
2) BlacKkKlansman
They say timing is everything, and the time for BlacKkKlansman is right now.
It's a story you couldn't make up - a black police officer in 1970s America who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. It turns out laughing at racists, in the hands of Spike Lee, becomes incredibly potent must-see cinema.
1) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Three Billboards pretty much bowled me for a six and is my top watch for 2018.
Without question it delivers on the promise of it's now Oscar-winning cast as they each and every one embody unforgettable characters I feel destined to carry with me always.
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