The scale of new releases means a conventional top ten list can't really grapple with the full landscape and watching the Oscars only clues you into part of the larger narrative. (Plus, you know, Aquaman!) If you like movies, the sheer range of available titles and ways to watch them could be intoxicating - and maddening. For superhero fans, this was a year of excitement and despair. For Netflix loyalists, the last 12 months have seen the company attempt to squash out the competition with a scorched-earth approach to film distribution.
For users of MoviePass, the controversial subscription service that for a brief period allowed its users to gorge on new releases with reckless abandon, 2018 was about excess and disappointment. The past year in movies was endlessly tumultuous.
