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So this is my semi-regularly updated of the BEST and WORST of the films from 2018 (2018 Films), as well as the best films I missed from last year and, of course, the Phil’s Quick Capsule Review Sharknado Award.

All in my very humble opinion…

BEST Films Of 2018… So Far:

Coco
Mission Impossible: Fallout
I, Tonya
A Quiet Place
Mary Poppins Returns

Honourable Mentions: Mandy, My Generation, Lady Bird, Revenge, Mollys Game, Upgrade, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, You Were Never Really Here, Bumblebee, The Festival, Calibre, Avengers: Infinity War, Game Night, Black Panther, Ready Player One, Office Uprising, The Post, Bohemian Rhapsody

WORST Films Of 2018… So Far

The Cloverfield Paradox
Fifty Shaded Freed
Annihilation
A Wrinkle In Time
Mile 22

Dis-Honourable Mentions: Gotti, The Spy Who Dumped Me,Red Sparrow, The Commuter, The Humanity Bureau, Renegades, Peter Rabbit, Ocean’s 8, Death Wish, Hellraiser: Judgement, Day Of The Dead : Bloodline, Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters Part 1, Extinction, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Patient Zero, Isle Of Dogs, Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell, All The Money In The World, The First Purge, The Ballard Of Buster Scruggs, Redcon-1

**The 2018 Sharknado Award for Films So Good (!) They Cant Be Rated:**

The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time

The 2018 Films I just couldn’t Finish…

Once Upon a Time in Venice

Great Films Of 2017 That I saw In 2018:

The Disaster Artist, The Babysitter, Mayhem, Icarus, The Greatest Showman, The Big Sick, LA 92, Better Watch Out

Phil Hobden

Phil Hobden is the former Film Editor & Writer for renowned martial arts focused COMBAT MAGAZINE in the UK. He is also a filmmaker in his own right, having produced two cult Independent action films in LEFT FOR DEAD and TEN DEAD MEN. He was the host for the award nominated Filmsploitation podcast for 4 years, currently co-hosts Ross And Phil Talk Movies and is a writer/editor for his own blog Phil’s Quick Capsule Review…

http://www.philhobden.co.uk

So 2018 is almost over and it’s that time a year again where everyone reflects back on their best and worst films of the year. So first up… the 10 WORST films of 2018 (with a few honourable mentions!). And, as always, there were quite a few to choose from..

Stinker of The Year: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

In Brief: In a year where there is both a Transformers movie and a Fifty Shades Movie it takes a special kind of rubbish to bin them BOTH. Well step up to the mark The Cloverfield Paradox – a total mess of a film dumped on Netflix by Paramount with all the love of a bottom draw direct to DVD release. And rightly so… poorly made, badly acted with shoddy direction and a total lack of clarity. This is everything wrong with studio filmmaking right here.

2. Fifty Shades Freed
In Brief: Rubbish but mildly better than the previous entries in the series. Still about as sexy as a group shower at a OAP weight watchers meeting, the franchise limps to a conclusion like all the grave of a flaccid penis.

3. Annihilation
In Brief: Alex Garland wrote one of my favourite films of all time (28 Days Later). He’s now directed one of my least. Another direct to Netflix joints – Annihilation is a pretentious, non-sensical pile of rubbish that thinks it’s far cleverer than its audience.

4. A Wrinkle In Time
In Brief: A Wrinkle In Time so so dull I fell sleep twice whilst watching it. I think that says all you need to know about this over stacked mess. That said my daughter liked it a lot so what do I know?

5. Mile 22
In Brief: Considering the films Berg and Marky Mark have made previously, Mile 22 should have at LEAST been fun. It’s not. It’s a total disaster.

6. Gotti – Badlymadefellas.

7. The Spy Who Dumped Me – Unfunny, overlong and a mess

8. Renegades – Totally forgettable.

9. Red Sparrow – A film you didn’t need or want

10. Ocean’s 8 – yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn

Dis-Honourable Mentions: The Humanity Bureau, All The Money In The World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Patient Zero, Isle Of Dogs, Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell, The First Purge, Ralph Breaks The Internet

The 2018 Films I just couldn’t Finish: Once Upon a Time in Venice