Don’t you just love it when that happens? Under the fine hand of Cooper - acting up a storm, and a surprisingly down-home singer - a remake that many worried might be a dumb gloss on 21st-century rock emerged as intimate and indelible, with an out-of-the-shallow soundtrack that killed. ![]() ![]() Image Credit: Neal Preston/Warner Bros Picturesīradley Cooper’s all-systems-go liftoff as a director and Lady Gaga’s dynamite movie-star turn powered this fourth retelling of the she’s-up/he’s-down showbiz fairy tale. In the shifting landscape of how we see movies, Roma is not only a great film. Cuarón’s made a black-and-white indie in Spanish that most people will see on Netflix, the streaming service that, thankfully, released this masterwork in theaters - both to qualify for Oscars and to give audiences the chance to see his vision in all of its big-screen glory. Then there’s Cleo (the unforgettable Yalitza Aparicio), a housekeeper who quietly holds the family together while her own life crumbles. The filmmaker contrasts the personal drama of divorce and domestic tension with the era’s politics, including a student revolt that ends in violence. What makes a movie the best of the year? See this poetic, profound and resplendently beautiful masterpiece that director Alfonso Cuarón carved from his memories of growing up in the Roma suburb of Mexico City in the 1970s. Here are the 20 movies that prodded, provoked and entertained to make a difference this year. And a documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, showed us how children’s TV host Mister Rogers, who died 15 years ago, still had lessons to teach a divided nation about civility. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse started a new revolution in color-blasting animation and inclusive storytelling. Harsh truth tangled with sharp humor as Spike Lee took on race in BlackKklansman and Adam McKay took down Dick Chaney in Vice. There were also wonders of exploration as First Man blasted off to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Eighth Grade took us inside the head of a 13-year-old girl lost in the digiverse. That movie - along with A Star Is Born, Green Book and Widows - helped the studio system make a comeback after years of creative lethargy. Marvel made its strongest impact ever with Black Panther, a celebration of diversity and black power that raised the bar on what a comic-book epic could accomplish. The streaming giant Netflix became a major player in the Oscar race with Roma, proving that the future of film-watching will no longer be defined by its delivery system. The best movies of 2018 created their own kind of history.
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