All of the new releases I saw in 2018 ranked in order from most best to least best:
1. Widows
Four men meet an untimely demise
Their wives plan up quite a surprise
Corruption abound
Violence rains all around
An empowered team breaks the rules for their prize
2. Skate Kitchen
A young skater, to the city she’ll embark
Finds a crew through her phone and a park
They tear through the streets
Friendship drama she meets
The journey through the light and the dark
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
There was a girl who had a tryst with another
Send away to a camp, her spirit they smother
Living with their religious bigotry
Makes friends seeking to be free
Hatched a plan to escape with each other
4. The Death of Stalin
There once was an iron-fisted dictator
Who died and was discovered later
The fight to rule next
Had everyone vexed
Politburo fighting over who’s loyal and who’s a traitor
5. Heredity
A funeral for mysterious kin
Spooky dolls in the house they live in
But after a party goes awry
The little sister’s head flies
A demon sex cult swoops in for the win
6. Blindspotting
There once was two friends from the Bay
Trying to get through life working day by day
Reluctant witness to a shooting
His own life it’s looting
Through verse he will make the cop pay
7. Eighth Grade
Middle school is a nightmare
Insecurities light up like a glare
But if you give it you’re all
And aren’t afraid to fall
You might just escape from despair
8. Support the Girls
Just a normal day at the job
Where they men seem to stare, gawk, and rob
But a co-worker in need
Is a co-worker indeed
Life’s doors often have a slippery knob
9. If Beale Street Could Talk
Young love blossoms, by heart
A surprise! A new life to start.
Falsely accused of a crime
Forced to do hard time
Racism tears a family apart
10. First Reformed
There once was quaint, small town pastor
A death opens his eyes to the environmental disaster
He realizes very quick
Why our system is so sick
And things spiral faster and faster
11. Foxtrot
An endless conflict takes from a family a child
But wait, same name but wrong family, isn’t that wild?
Emotions run high
Makes you really ask why
Through blood a holy land defiled
12. The Insult
A refugee, trying to make ends meet
Historical trauma and thing but discreet
A small conflict explodes
The court case travels roads
Seeds of understanding planted at our feet
13. Sorry to Bother You
A dead end job turns out quite well
When you use your white voice to sell
But how to reconcile
With capitalism so vile
There are mutant horse people as well
14. Mandy
A man and women live simply amidst the trees
Until a cult takes her from him most brutally
He unleashes himself
Takes every weapon from the shelf
And every last drop of their blood he will squeeze
15. The Black Panther
There once was Panther quite black
Whose homeland was at risk for attack
From a man from outside
Who risked his whole hide
Their protective shell they realized they must crack
16. Mission impossible: Fallout
There once was a man with no fear
Jump off a plane? Why not, if it’s here
A nuclear plot
That they must stop
But they do (of course. and we cheer
17. The Favourite
There once was a mischievous rascal
Kicked to the curb by her family at a castle
She finds her was to the queen
After cooking up a slick scheme
For her cousin she became quite a hassle
18. Shoplifters
There once was a family from the slum
Shoplifting for sustenance and fun
In come someone new
They debate what to do
And it all falls apart under the sun
19. BlaKkKlansman
A black man joins the local police
Hoping to clear the Klan off the streets
He tricks them quite good
To get under their hood
A small group of racists he beats
20. Thoroughbreds
A Connecticut sociopath
Meets with her “friend” to help her do math
Her step-dead cruel as the family head
So they prefer him to be dead
Probably for the best, hospitalization is her path
21. Tully
There once was an overwhelmed Mom
Who finds solace in a Nanny she leans on
Lets loose in the city
Her family takes no pity
But then that might not be what’s going on
22. The Guilty
23. A Star is Born
24. Boy Erased
25. The Old Man and the Gun
26. First Man
27. Bad Times at the El Royale
28. American Animals
29. Creed II
30. Ralph Breaks the Internet
31. Incredibles 2
32. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
33. Vice
34. The Hate U Give
35. A Simple Favor
36. Searching
37. Eating Animals
38. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
39. McQueen
40. Crazy Rich Asians
41. Antman & The Wasp
42. Ocean’s Eight
43. A Quiet Place
44. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
45. Ready Player One
46. Tag
48. Hotel Artemis
49. The Sister Brothers
50. The House with the Clock in the Walls
51. Avengers: Infinity Wars
52. Mary Poppins Returns
53. Slice
54. Death of a Nation
Slam Zuckert is a municipal bureaucrat. He sees a lot of movies and reads a lot of books and sometimes writes about them. His favorite movie is There Will Be Blood, his favorite mathematician is Georg Cantor, and his least favorite mathematician is Leopold Kronecker.
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