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Leave No Trace - Before this movie Ben Foster seemed like a very good actor with an extremely limited range. Director Debra Granik showed that Foster can play an extremely reserved and emotionally damaged war veteran. Thomasin McKenzie was also brilliant as his teen age daughter. The Oregon rain forest where they illegally live is also a star. The Rider - I kept putting off seeing The Rider since I have absolutely no interest in horses or rodeo so I am glad it stayed at the Aquarius long enough for me to see this great film. Chinese director Chloé Zhao somehow manages to make great movies that truly capture the values of the rural western United States. This movie uses amateur actors playing characters based on their own lives and filming often started after the actors finished their real jobs. For a very low budget movie the cinematography is excellent. The Favourite - Sarcastic comedies are always best when they have no likable characters and this one has none. I was almost bound to like a movie with Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone but The Favourite was much better than I expected. Shoplifters - Director Hirokazu Koreeda always makes movies about unusual Japanese families that tell you so much about his country. This family of shoplifters is particularly unusual. My favorite Koreeda film is still Our Little Sister but this movie is a close second. First Man - This very good biography of Neil Armstrong deserved to do much better at the box office. Just like my top two of the year this is an extremely emotional movie about an unemotional man. The right wing attacks on this movie for being unpatriotic were laughable since the American flag on the moon looked far better in this movie than it did when I watched it live on TV as a kid. If Beale Street Could Talk - This movie of the James Baldwin book was very good. The cinematography and score were truly excellent. Black Panther - I saw Black Panther without reading any reviews since I had just returned from Buenos Aires and my Antarctica cruise a day or so before seeing it. I was not expecting an extremely feminist movie like this one. The misogynists and racists on the internet hate this movie but I loved it. Disney did make the noticeable mistake of trying to save money on CGI during the later stages of the movie and internet trolls are obsessed with that. Eighth Grade - This is a very touching and realistic movie about a plain and pudgy girl trying to make it through the last few months of middle school. Elsie Fisher is great as the girl. Writer/director Bo Burnham’s first film is a big change for a comedian and singer. Thoroughbreds - Of course a movie about a sweet and plain middle schooler needs to be followed with a movie about two hot high school sociopaths/psychopaths. This was a rather good sarcastic comedy staring the excellent Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy. Spider-man Into the Spiderverse - Who would have thought that a nearly psychedelic Spider-Man movie would be the perfect place to teach the physics multiverse theory.