This is the world we live in now, when even Aquaman and Venom try to reckon with the effects of climate change. There are plenty of stories about working-class malaise, about the disease of racism, about immigration, about the urge to escape this planet on this list. There are a lot of films about environmental catastrophe on this list. Speaking of Netflix, hoo boy: There are, perhaps surprisingly, a lot of Netflix originals on this list. Welles’ film sprawls out so much further than just the bounds of 2018. Which is also why we didn’t include it: Leaving it off not only gives one more space to a great 2018 film, and a great 2018 filmmaker, but it admits that there’s only so much qualifying we can do when it comes to a subjective year-end piece like this. It’s a masterpiece, and easily arguable as a 2018 movie, and would have ranked without much fuss near the head of this assemblage. ![]() We can’t begin our countdown of the 50 best movies of 2018 without first mentioning that Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind is not on this list.
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