1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Actors: Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Shameik Moore, Brian Tyree Henry, Mahershala Ali, Liev Schreiber
Plot: There are other Spider-Men than these. When Spider-Man finds himself crossing into parallel dimensions, he must team up with the alternate versions of himself in order to combat a threat that has the potential to destroy all realities.
2. Avengers: Infinity War
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Josh Brolin, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Holland
Plot: Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, the avengers must team up to stop the Titan Thanos from taking the six infinity stones for his infinity gauntlet to obtain total galactic destruction.
3. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Morgan Neville
Actors: Joanne Rogers, Fred Rogers, Yo-Yo Ma, François Scarborough Clemmons, David Newell, Joe Negri
Plot: Through life lessons, sharing, puppets and compassion, Fred Rogers influenced generations of children though his television show. Won't You Be My Neighbor? looks into the life and legacy of Mr. Rogers.
4. Roma
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Actors: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Nancy García García
Plot: Follows a year in the life of Cleo, a housekeeper for a middle-class family in Mexico City during a turbulent time. From everyday struggles to more complex drama, life, with all its tribulations is experienced with Cleo and the family she helps.
5. Shoplifters ( Manbiki kazoku )
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi
Plot: A family of small-time crooks use shoplifting to help ends meet but their operation comes under new scrutiny when they take in a child from the streets.
6. BlacKkKlansman
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Adam Driver, Topher Grace, John David Washington, Ryan Eggold, Laura Harrier, Robert John Burke
Plot: Based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, and African-American cop in Colorado who infiltrated the local Ku Klux Klan and found himself head of said chapter.
7. They Shall Not Grow Old
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Plot: A ground-breaking documentary that takes original footage from WWI, that has been colorized along with adding sound, allowing us to hear voices from the previously voiceless and giving audiences an unprecedented look of the trials, triumph and brutality of this war, and the people who experienced it first hand.
8. Eighth Grade
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bo Burnham
Actors: Josh Hamilton, Elsie Fisher, Emily Robinson, Missy Yager, Greg Crowe, Deborah Unger
Plot: Kayla has lived through nearly a year of a disastrous eighth grade year. As we follow her through her last week in middle school before summer, we live her life in all its painful glory.
9. The Favourite
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
Plot: In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne is on the throne while war rages with the French. Her devoted friend, Sarah Churchill, governs the country in her stead while trying to keep the queen's health and temper under control The arrival of a new servant, Abigail, soon changes the dynamics as she at first endears herself to Sarah, and later, the queen herself.
10. Black Panther
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ryan Coogler
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett
Plot: Following the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the advanced nation of Wakanda in order to take the throne and rule his land. But he soon finds that forces from both outside and within his country conspire to bring ruin and drag Wakanda in to a new world war. But with the power of the Black Panther, along with help from CIA agent Everett K. Ross and the Dora Milaje - Wakanda's special forces, T'Challa will stop at nothing from saving his homeland - and his father's legacy.
