and we're going to warm you up with a fistful of popcorn and this is our annual best of show we're going to talk about the show the movies of two thousand and eighteen it's about we're taping about three weeks before the oscar broadcast so we're going to get there first i'm tonight's moderator my name is janet stern and i'm thrilled to be joined by our regular panelists bob brown marilyn campbell and carole wel well what we've done in the past and i think it will do it again tonight is for each of us to give our ten best list of the undead we will have some runners up as well and after we all do that we can talk much more informally about the films the performances the cinematography the act what the set design whatever we choose to comment on the score and we'll take it from there so i don't we rider movie at the beginning of the year that was about a road you're a writer who's been injured a quiet place can you ever forgive me and then one i'm not sure it's completely legitimate of so many others but it's funny that we all like that so much and it was waving the well giving of the year yes i had his number ten i'm going to go in reverse order like how did i had his number ten the sort of slash the writer and lean on pete which i leave no trace i love this woman's movies and i course i can't remember her name but you all know who i mean thirty first street formed which stark you can talk to believe it or not eighth grade which i down so this won't be in any particular order and i hope i can read my notes can you ever forgive me about a buster scruggs i'm glad some of the some of those i mentioned that fav big acting scene which was a commie by your name between the father and the son at the end everybody was talking about that there's a scene in this between the father and the daughter which is just as moving just as moving and beautiful creations and voiceovers very few talking heads but they were voice overs where they would be reading from these documents and then the people would be acting out the scenes i read very reviews of all those and never got to see them like you saw them it makes me ask this question which is three donegal strangers everyone was talking about it was not nominated and i think the difference between the ones you're describing and that one that would made me very suspicious throughout the whole thing about what was being left out what was being made to make you know you just get that feeling about some document you get so you feel manipulated do and i'm sure the ones you're talking about you were not if you didn't feel is my  i was interested in who write our history because they they got over the sort of hum of being read dramatizing what happened by having voiceover from the actual document but the actors don't speak and so it had that more much more of a feeling of plausibility or if they were acting it out it would seem bigger and actually nobody has mentioned and nor was it mentioned for awards fahrenheit eleven nine michael moore's what i saw was very interesting think hasn't much been covered certainly and they made a point i read many articles of their mexican cinema this is really the first time and it didn't is woman has but started a film right  and she got on nomination and yeah i also feel that it was it was so so deeply felt it was a memory piece and you know just got a just god the emotion of it was was such a loving portrait of this woman who raised him but i think it also as you say tempered took a step back and placed her in the context of history and then they're going to start again as well yes yes yes yes so it really hit over box it did station i saw creed first and i was underwhelmed and then but they kept saying but this director had made food fill station so then i went back and saw that and i went oh my gosh this guy can really make a film i mean i was so impressed with that movie i thought creed was definitely a step down and i haven't seen it well i think that one of the some of the strongest parts of black panther are the scenes that are set in oakland which is where the station is  the young the michael b jordan character who was kill kill yeah kill something isn't right anyway oh what's his name kill monger something like that and his youth in stand out actor actress supporting supporting whatever lesson mccarthy from wonderful yeah i think and she we had discussed when we saw the film that she had some stage experience which we're not as her t v work right and for me her performance was a revelation as to what she can do playing against the kind of types of characters she's on saturday night live playing so that impressed me a lot and of kind of my age group and i just enjoyed the heck out of it i mean i don't think it's in the original movie in any way and bio pics always tend to be a little plodding but the performance was won that performance was the best rock and roll live performance ever performing it and they apparently they did they did it they try to recreate  poppins no i haven't seen i listen mccarthy certainly ok that's what i've got i actually had down some things that i didn't put on my best hand i thought that the acting was and all the movie eighth grade was one can you ever forgive me which one of them i didn't think was the greatest movie in the world but the performances are wonderful and while life which i think you had on my head well yeah well that is where kerry  them for just quickly i had as actresses melissa mccarthy katherine hahn again i mentioned in private life if you haven't seen that it's on netflix and i really recommend it ok elsie fisher for eighth grade and i can't believe i can't remember the maids name the the another one we haven't talked about that everybody is talking about and i want to bring that up and that is a star is i haven't seen it haven't seen it as a reason why is that this came came out around christmas and i was very busy would rather spend more time talking about you know roma yeah but in the end i thought the movie was about the wrong character the movie was about so limp so did dunn shirley's family and there's something for everyone if that's true i didn't care for sorry to bother you and i did like it but i always kept feeling like it was trying to be bigger and better than get out and that was wrong of me but i just now get out i so adore and then testable the trenton film society is doing as they have done every year showing of the nominated oscar shorts there are february twenty first twenty second and the third and you can go on their website everything is easy once you do it you'll do it again all right well thank you so much that was a lightning and it was a good summing up and i hope you'll join us again next time when we discuss a film in theaters thank you