2019 in films - according to Film Excess

The Top 10 of 2019

1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker/Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker - J.J. Abrams + Best Action-Adventure of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid)

2. The Irishman (I Heard You Paint Houses), VOD - Martin Scorsese + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Comeback Actor of the Year: Joe Pesci + Best Epic of the Year + Best Gangster Movie of the Year + Worst Poster of the Year

3. Judy - Rupert Goold + Best Biopic of the Year + Best Comeback Actress of the Year: Renée Zellweger

4. One Child Nation, documentary - Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang

5. Queen of Hearts/Dronningen - May el-Toukhy + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Sex Drama of the Year 

6. Avengers: Endgame - Anthony & Joe Russo + Best Blockbuster of the Year (2,797.3 mil. $ gross) + Best Superhero Movie of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year (763.12 
mil. $ range)

7. Honeyland, documentary - Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov + Best Hero of the Year: Hatidze + Best Nature Documentary of the Year 

8. Out Stealing Horses/Ut og Stjæle Hester - Hans Petter Moland + Best Adaptation of the Year + Norwegian Movie of the Year 

9. Pain and Glory/Dolor y Gloria - Pedro Almodóvar

10. It Chapter Two - Andy Muschietti + Best Gore Movie of the Year + Best Horror Movie of the Year 

Other good, recommendable movies (in alphabetic order):

Late Night - Nisha Ganatra + Best New York Movie of the Year

Uncle/Onkel - Frelle Petersen + Best Low-Budget Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year

The Bottom 2 of 2019

1. Annabelle Comes Home - Gary Dauberman + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year 

2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood/Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino + Most Overrated Movie of the Year 

Other failed, mediocre and/or poor films (in alphabetic order):

Rambo: Last Blood - Adrian Grünberg
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - André Øvredal 
Us - Jordan Peele + Strangest Movie of the Year 

[17 titles in total]

Notes:

No masterpieces from 2019 have been found yet.
The year's top is reigned by J.J. Abrams' exhilarating saga ender Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Martin Scorsese's mammoth-length gangster drama The Irishman; and Rupert Goold's terrific showbiz biopic Judy. The rest of the top are Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's politically explosive documentary One Child Nation; May el-Toukhy's stirring sex drama Queen of Hearts; Anthony and Joe Russo's expectations-beating franchise finale Avengers: Endgame; Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov's rare nature documentary Honeyland; Hans Petter Moland's visually sumptuous adaptation Out Stealing Horses; Pedro Almodóvar's personal drama Pain and Glory and finally Andy Muschietti's horror whopper It Chapter Two.
The bottom only has two films on it at the moment; Gary Dauberman's awful bore Annabelle Comes Home; and Quentin Tarantino's hugely applauded, dead movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Great filmmakers who put out underwhelming efforts in 2019 also include André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) and Jordan Peele (Us).

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]  

1. Rambo: Last Blood - 13.44 mil. $ range
2. Out Stealing Horses - 3.98 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 17.42 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account] 

1. Avengers: Endgame - 763.12 mil. $ range
2. It Chapter Two - 118.8 mil. $ range
3. Annabelle Comes Home - 91.4 mil. $ range
4. Us - 82.04 mil. $ range
5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 53.92 mil. $ range
6. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - 13.8 mil. $ range
7. Late Night - 4.92 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 1,128 mil. $

2019 titles currently on the watch-list:

Ip Man 4: The Finale, Bombshell, Frozen II, Last Christmas, Terminator: Dark Fate, Jexi, The Addams Family, The Goldfinch, Hustlers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Dolemite Is My Name, Waiting for the Barbarians, Joker, Citizen K, Uncut Gems, Daniel, The Truth, Echo, Crawl, Deadwood: The Movie, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Parasite, Frankie, The Lighthouse, The Virtues, Missing Link, The Twilight Zone (2019-), Ximei, Booksmart, The Art of Self-Defense, The Peanut Butter Falcon, The Kid, The Golden Glove, Brittany Runs a Marathon, The Souvenir, Luce, Greener Grass, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Honey Boy, The Kid Who Would Be King

Previous annual lists:
    
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess  
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2013 in films - according to Film Excess    
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V] 
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess
2007 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   
2005 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   

What do you think of the 2019 lists?
Which 2019 titles are at the top and bottom of your lists?
Which worthwhile 2019 titles are missing on the watch-list?  

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker/Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - A solid saga ending

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+ Best Action-Adventure of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid)

A large collection of characters and visuals are brought together on this primary-colored poster for J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

The Rebellion are forced to a final reckoning with an enemy thought dead; Emperor Palpatine. Meanwhile last Jedi Rey's roots are explored, and her strong relation to Kylo Ren comes to a conclusion.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is written by Chris Terrio (Argo (2012)) and great New-Yorker co-writer/co-producer/director J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III (2006)), with Derek Connolly (Monster Trucks (2016)) and Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World (2015)) contributing story elements. It is the concluding third film in the reboot Star Wars trilogy and the concluding ninth film in the overall Skywalker saga, which began with Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
The script has been compiled with the added difficulty of key cast member Carrie Fisher's (Heartbreakers (2001)) 2016 demise; her Princess Leia hasn't been written out of the new film, and her scenes have not been completed with a CGI-created performance, apparently: Rather, footage that was left over from Abrams' great first Star Wars film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) has been used, and the story is designed to match.
The film begins with an exciting space chase and goes on at a break-neck pace, but some fun moments are afforded droid favorite C-3PO (Anthony Daniels (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980))), (less for other droid favorites R2D2 and BB8 this time around); John Boyega (24: Live Another Day (2014, miniseries)) also gets some amusing situations, and a cute new mechanic character named Babu Frik is adorable and fun. SPOILER The film sends Leia off, (after we think it sent Chewbacca off, but that was a red herring), and dashing pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac (X-Men: Apocalypse (2016))) gets the command. The main focus is on Rey; Daisy Ridley (Scrawl (2015)) continues to be a vibrant, commanding presence as the diminutive heroine, - and on evil Kylo Ren aka. Ben Solo, SPOILER who undergoes the most profound change in the film: Adam Driver (Logan Lucky (2017)) takes his Star Wars star to the next level here; after Rey saves him, he finally casts away darkness for the light. There's also an amazing planet with tall dancing creatures and cute baby aliens.
The film's villain is a reanimation of the greatest foe in the Star Wars pantheon, if you ask me: Not Darth Vader but, of course, Emperor Palpatine, in the harrowing, still in the iconic guise of Ian McDiarmid (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)). His intonations and the corpse-like makeup and prosthetics add tremendous fuel to the film, as it reveals Rey to be his granddaughter. His lair and the sound design are also truly magnificent. Richard E. Grant (Jackie (2016)) is well-cast as a new secondary villain of the First Order.
The film uses ghosts of siblings Leia and Luke Skywalker to guide Rey, (and, more than a bit confusingly, seemingly pose as her adoptive parents), but the latter's power as a character arguably played out in the saga's best film to date, masterpiece Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and his inclusion here is questionable. Rise of Skywalker also re-earths another old character in Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams (The Ladies Man (2000))), whose reappearance will be either hammy or satisfying to you according to your individual perspective.

The story is something about a dagger, that has inscription that needs to be translated, because it will lead to a 'Pathfinder', which will lead to the location of the secret Exegol planet (...); it's also about light-sabers and the Force. The plot can feel a bit secondary to the technical wonders in this film, John Williams' (The Killers (1964)) fabulous score and Dan Mindel's (Spy Game (2001)) ravishing photography, as well as the great performances. But mostly the considerable pot of emotional investment that is at play here, which drives the adventure through thrills, tears and to rousing optimism, when the universe finally answers the call to stand with the Rebellion.
As a devoted Star Wars fan, The Rise of Skywalker is a thrilling and satisfying end to the saga, if not exactly  to be counted among the best in the 9-picture series.

Related posts:

J.J. Abrams: 2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]  
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Abrams scores big time, makes beautiful space opera blockbuster
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) or, Star Trek It Before You Wreck It
Star Trek (2009) - Abrams' imperfect but awesome reboot
Super 8 (2011) - Abrams' nostalgic family crowdpleaser
Cloverfield (2008) or, It Tore Her Head Off! (co-producer)   

 

Watch a trailer for the film here 

Cost: Estimated 250-300 mil. $
Box office: 59.1 mil. $ and counting (just released)
= Uncertain
[Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker premiered 16 December (Los Angeles, California) and runs 142 minutes. Trevorrow was hired to direct but withdrew after failing to deliver a script that producer Kathleen Kennedy thought acceptable. Abrams decided to keep Fisher in the film, using the leftover Force Awakens footage. Shooting took place in England, Jordan and in New York and Los Angeles from August 2018 - February 2019. The box office performance is followed with some trepidation, following the first real flop of a Star Wars movie with the preceding Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), though not part of the saga. Rise of Skywalker shows poor reception in China and a smaller North-American initial reception than Force Awakens and Last Jedi. It has two announced markets left to open in: Vietnam and the Philippines in January. Abrams does not have an announced next directing gig. Ridley returns in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2020); Driver in Annette (2020); and McDiarmid does not have an announced next gig. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is rotten at 58 % with a 6.22/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker?

2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

The Top 10 of 2018:

1. Birds of Passage/Pájaros de Verano - Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra + Best Colombian Movie of the Year + Best Drug Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Most Under-Appreciated Movie of the Year

2. A Star Is Born - Bradley Cooper + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year: Bradley Cooper + Best Musical of the Year + Best Remake of the Year + Best Dog Performance of the Year: Charlie + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year

3. Stan & Ollie - Jon S. Baird + Best Dramedy of the Year + English Movie of the Year + Best Homage of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Nina Arianda

4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Christopher McQuarrie + Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Fight Scene of the Year: Bathroom fight scene + Best Car Chase of the Year: Paris chase + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year
 

5. I Feel Pretty - Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein + Best Comedy of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year

6. Green Book - Peter Farrelly + Best Road Movie of the Year

7. A Quiet Place - John Krasinski + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Apocalyptic Movie of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year: John Krasinski & Emily Blunt

8. Aquaman - James Wan + Best Action-Adventure of the Year + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Superhero Movie of the Year + Breakthrough Actor of the Year: Jason Momoa

9. The White Crow - Ralph Fiennes + Best Biopic of the Year + Best Dance Movie of the Year + Best Paris Movie of the Year + Best Political Movie of the Year

10. The Nun - Corin Hardy + Best Religious Horror Movie of the Year + Breakthrough Actress of the Year: Taissa Farmiga

Other great movies of 2018 (in alphabetic order):

Tully - Jason Reitman + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year


Other good, recommendable movies of 2018 (in alphabetic order):

Black Panther - Ryan Coogler + Most Overrated Movie of the Year

Cold War - Pawel Pawlikowski + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Polish Movie of the Year

The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - J.A. Bayona

Shoplifters/万引き家族 (Manbiki kazoku) - Hirokazu Kore-eda + Best Japanese Movie of the Year + Best Tokyo Movie of the Year

Failed, mediocre and/or poor films (in alphabetical order):

A Fortunate Man/Lykke-Per - Bille August  + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Esben Smed
Border/Gräns - Ali Abbasi 
The House that Jack Built - Lars Von Trier 

[19 titles in total]

Notes:

This first update of the 2018 summary adds 7 titles to the mix, 5 of them broaching the Top 10 and none bad, which makes it still impossible to start 2018's Bottom 10 list: Where there no bad films made in 2018? Yes, there were, and those reviews are coming. 
Topping the year is new entry Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra's fantastic drug drama Birds of Passage, which pushes Bradley Cooper's sensational musical surprise smash remake A Star Is Born to 2nd place. They are followed by new entry Jon S. Baird's spectacular comedy duo homage Stan & Ollie as the year's 3rd best. The list goes on with Christopher McQuarrie's second suspenseful action blessing, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein's uplifting body image romcom I Feel Pretty, new entry Peter Farrelly's surprising period road movie dramedy and popular smash Green Book, John Krasinski's tight survival horror A Quiet Place, new entry James Wan's action-adventure popcorn-pushing blessing Aquaman, new entry Ralph Fiennes' anti-Communist ballet maestro biopic The White Crow and finally Corin Hardy's Gothic religious horror The Nun. Pushed from the Top 10 list in this update are Jason Reitman's birth depression dramedy Tully, Hirokazu Kore-eda's insightful Tokyo-set social realism Shoplifters, J.A. Bayona's major box office dino actioner Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Ryan Coogler's hyperboled superhero escapade Black Panther.
Great filmmakers who made underwhelming films in 2018 include Lars Von Trier (The House that Jack Built) and Bille August (A Fortunate Man).

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]  

1. The House that Jack Built - 7.7 mil. $ range
2. Tully - 5.76 mil. $ range
3. A Fortunate Man - 5.33 mil. $ range
 = Combined losses: 18.79 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - 353.36 mil. $ range
2. Black Panther - 338.76 mil. $ range
3. Aquaman - 259.24 mil. $ range
4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout - 138.44 mil. $ range
5. A Star Is Born - 137.92 mil. $ range
6. The Nun - 124.2 mil. $ range
7. A Quiet Place - 119.36 mil. $ range
8. Green Book - 105.68 mil. $ range 
9. The Favourite - 23.36 mil. $ range
10. Shoplifters - 16.2 mil. $ range
 = Combined profits: 1,616.52 mil. $

On the 2019 Oscars:

The 91st Academy Awards were the first since 1989 to have no host, a solution that followed months of troubles following the lowest-rated Oscars to date in 2018 with host Jimmy Kimmel. Several attempts to change the show's format, including a Best Popular Film category, having less Best Song nominees perform and having technical Oscars be given during commercial breaks, were effectively shot down by angered industry heads, and the show was consequently not much shorter than is normal.
Most nominated of the year were Roma and The Favourite with 10 each, but the night's biggest winner in number of statuettes was scandalized directed Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody with 4.
Green Book won Best Picture, Original Screenplay (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Curie and Peter Farrelly) and Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali). Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director for Netflix's Roma, which also won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography (Cuarón). Rami Malek won Best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody, which also won Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Editing. Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Favourite; Regina King Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk. BlacKkKlansman won Best Adapted Screenplay (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Wilmott and Spike Lee). Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won Best Animation, and the short film Oscars went to Period. End of Sentence. (doc.), Skin (live action) and Bao (animated). Ludwig Göransson won Best Score for Black Panther, which also won Best Production Design and Costume Design. A Star Is Born won only Best Song (Shallow), with Vice winning Best Makeup and Hairstyling and First Man winning Best Visual Effects. Honorary awards went to Cicely Tyson, Lalo Schifrin, Marvin Levy, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. The viewership increased 12 % from the catastrophic 2018 ceremony to 29.6 mil. in the US, still among the lowest-rated Oscars to date.

2018 titles on the watch-list:

Johnny English Strikes Again, Early Man, Beautiful Boy, Sicario: Fay of the Soldado, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Isle of Dogs, Unsane, Searching, Wildlife, Burning, The Tale, Alpha, Blaze, Finale, Boy Erased, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, The Front Runner, Mandy, Assassination Nation, The Happy Prince, Never Look Away, Roma, Long Way Back Home, The Other Side of the Wind, Eight Grade, Free Solo, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Vice, The Sisters Brothers, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, The Mule, Annihilation, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Welcome to Marwen, Bird Bo, Arctic, At Eternity's Gate, RBG, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Poppins Returns, First Man, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Christopher Robin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Mirai, Incredibles 2, Period. End of Sentence., Lifeboat, Skin, Fauve, Detainment, One Small Step, Bao, Animal Behavior, End Game, Black Sheep, Minding the Gap, Bohemian Rhapsody


Previous annual lists:
    
2018 in films - according to Film Excess  
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2013 in films - according to Film Excess    
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V] 
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess
2007 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   
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2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  

What do you think of the 2018 list?
Which 2018 titles are at the top and bottom of your lists?
Which worthwhile 2018 titles are missing on the watch-list?