Succession: Season 1 (2018) ***

The Haunting Of Hill House (2018) ****

Killing Eve: Season 1 (2018) ***

Madcap British TV series written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Superb performance by Jodie Comer.

Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now (2018) ***

Iliza: Elder Millennial (2018) ***

Chris Rock: Tamborine (2018) ***

Dreams Of Dali (2018) ***

Better Call Saul: Season 4 (2018) ***

The Americans: Season 6 (2018) ***

The last three episodes are terrific, among the best of all episodes of "The Americans".

Billions: Season 3 (2018) ***

Narcos Mexico: Season 1 (2018) ***

The Good Fight: Season 2 (2018) ***

Ray Donovan: Season 6 (2018) ***

Westworld: Season 2 (2018) ***

BoJack Horseman: Season 5 (2018) ****

Yellowstone: Season 1 (2018) ***

Crow: The Legend (2018) ***

Love In The Digital Age (2018) ***

My Brilliant Friend: Season 1 (2018) ****

Brilliant Italian TV series set in Naples in the 1950's.

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: Season 2 (2018) ***

Ready Player One (2018) **

Entertaining, but predictable.

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) **

Han Solo's early years.

The Sisters Brothers (2018) **

Grim western starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal.

RBG (2018) **

Fine documentary about the famous Supreme Court justice.

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018) **

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) **

How to destroy all the Marvel action heroes, or at least half of them.

First Man (2018) **

Unlike "The Right Stuff" (1983) and "Apollo 13" (1995), this film about the NASA astronauts is curiously eccentric, focusing on the less heroic aspects of the space race.

Free Solo (2018) **

Peter Rabbit (2018) **

Amusing.

Stan And Ollie (2018) **

A biopic about the famous comic duo, set after their Hollywood career. Touching and quite sad.

The Meg (2018) **

Crazy Rich Asians (2018) **

A pleasant rom-com that turns into an over-the-top soap opera in the third act.

BlacKKKlansman (2018) **

A very powerful ending, connecting the events of the film, set in the early 70's, to the Charlottesville rally in 2017. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is quite predictable, even thought the set-up is certainly unusual. Far from Spike Lee's best film, but certainly his most ambitious one in a very long time.

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) **

Beautiful Boy (2018) **

Story of a junkie.

The Old Man And The Gun (2018) **

It starts well, but soon runs out of gas.

Can You Ever Forgive Me ? (2018) **

A misantropic biographer forges letters from famous writers.

Black Panther (2018) **

First, let's get the politics out of the way: this is a smart pro-Trump movie, celebrating a conservative country that embraces border security, isolationism and refuses to accept refugees, but because it's set in Africa and promotes a Wakanda-first (rather than America-first) policy, nobody can accuse it of alt-right sympathies. And the film's villain is a radical leftist who wants to fight racist oppression and start revolutions everywhere. That said, the film itself, while quite impressive on many levels, is way too long, way too slow and way too reminiscent of Disney's "The Lion King". It could have used more action scenes as well. There is an excellent review on Breitbart here, which sums up the film's politics perfectly: "The movie's hero is Trump, the villain is Black Lives Matter".

Destroyer (2018) *

Mile 22 (2018) *

First Reformed (2018) *

Depressing film about faith, ecology and terrorism.

Boy Erased (2018) *

Watch "Call Me By Your Name" instead.

Top 10 Films of 2017

1. "Call Me By Your Name" (Luca Guadagnino, USA)

2. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri" (Martin McDonagh, USA) 

3. "Dunkirk" (Christopher Nolan, USA)

4. "First They Killed My Father" (Angelina Jolie, Cambodia)

5. "Thor: Ragnarok" (Taika Waititi, USA)

6. "Ava" (Léa Mysius, France)

7. "Wonder" (Stephen Chbosky, USA)

8. "The Post" (Steven Spielberg, USA)

9. "An Ordinary Man" (Brad Silberling, USA)

10. "I Love You Daddy" (Louis C.K., USA)

Other great films:

24 Frames (Iran)

Les Affames (Canada)

All You Can Eat Buddha (Canada)

Ana mon amour (Romania)

Au revoir la-haut (France)

Baby Driver
Battle Of The Sexes
The Big Sick

Blade Runner 2049

Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 (Canada)

The Boss Baby

Boy Undone (Mexico)

C'est le coeur qui meurt en dernier (Canada)
Coco

Darkest Hour (UK)

Dawn Of The Felines (Japan)

The Disaster Artist

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

Les Faux tatouages (Canada)

Fifty Shades Darker

The Florida Project

Les Gardiennes (France)

Get Out

Grave (France)

The Greatest Showman

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2

Half His Age: A Teenage Tragedy

Here Alone 

Icarus

In The Fade (Germany)

It

I Tonya

Kong: Skull Island

Logan

Loving Vincent (Poland)

Manic (Canada)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Molly's Game

Most Beautiful Island

Mother

Mr et Mme Adelman (France)

On Body And Soul (Hungary)

Patients (France)

La Petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (Canada)

Pokot (Poland)

Le Sens de la fête (France)

The Shape Of Water

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

The Villainess (South Korea)

Visages Villages (France)

Who's Watching Oliver ?
Wonder Wheel

Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2017:

1. "Le Redoutable" (Michel Hazanavicius, France)

2. "The Meyerowitz Stories" (Noah Baumbach, Netflix)

3. "Jeune femme" (Léonor Serraille, France)

4. "Loveless" (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia)

5. "L'Amant double" (François Ozon, France)

6. "Picture Of Beauty" (Maxim Ford, UK)

7. "Great Great Great" (Adam Garnet Jones, Canada)

8. "Taste Of Life" (Roland Reber, Germany)

9. "Spina" (Tereza Nvotová, Slovakia)

10. "The Institute" (James Franco, Pamela Romanowsky, USA)

Short Top 3:

1. "Pre-Drink" (Marc-Antoine Lemire, Canada)

2. "Yes God Yes" (Karen Maine, USA)

3. "2D Run" (Marin Kafedjiiski, Bulgaria)

Other great shorts:

ABSTRACTOID (Australia)

Backstroke

Intercourse (Sweden)

Irenne (Spain)

The Silent Child (UK)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "P.O.W.A." (M.I.A.)

2. "The Story Of O.J." (Jay-Z)

3. "The Great Undressing" (Marie Kristiansen, Jenny Hval, Norway)

Other great music videos:

Despacito

The Drums (South Africa)

Humble

Look What You Made Me Do
New Rules
Praying

Pump

Ready For It

Winter (South Africa)

Young Thug - Wyclef Jean

Top Commercial:

"Gravity Cat" (PlayStation, Japan)

Other great commercials:

Very Merry Mistake Mirry Christmus (New Zealand)

TV Top 10:

1. "Dark: Season 1" (Netflix)

2. "Better Call Saul: Season 3" (AMC)

3. "Game Of Thrones: Season 7" (HBO)

4. "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: Season 1" (Amazon)

5. "I Love Dick" (Amazon)

6. "Big Little Lies: Season 1" (Jean-Marc Vallee, HBO)

7. "Budding Prospects" (Terry Zwigoff, Amazon)

8. "Girls: Season 6" (HBO)

9. "Fargo: Season 3" (FX)

10. "Narcos: Season 3" (Netflix)

Other great TV shows:

The Americans: Season 5

Billions: Season 2
BoJack Horseman: Season 4

The Crown: Season 2 (UK)

The Good Fight: Season 1
Mr Robot: Season 3

The Sinner: Season 1

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Cipka" (Renata Gasiorowska, Poland)

2. "Revolting Rhymes Part One" (Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh, UK)

3. "Hedgehog's Home" (Eva Cvijanovic, Croatia)

Other great cartoons:

Garden Party (France)
Revolting Rhymes Part Two (UK)

Top VR film:

"Carne y Arena" (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, USA)

Other great VR films:

Asteroids! 

Dear Angelica

Miyubi

Top 3 Stand-Up Comedy Shows:

1. "Christina P: Mother Inferior" (Jay Karas, Netflix)

2. "Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out" (Jay Karas, Netflix)

3. "Katherine Ryan: In Trouble" (Colin Dench, Netflix)

Weak films of 2017:

Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
Adventures In Public School (Canada)
All The Money In The World
Ava

Ballerina (Canada)
Beauty And The Beast
Boost (Canada)
The Breadwinner
Le Brio (France)
Cars 3

Charlotte a du fun (Canada)
Despicable Me 3

Downsizing

Et au pire on se mariera (Canada)
Ferdinand

Good Time
Goon: Last Of The Enforcers (Canada)
Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405

Hochelaga terre des âmes (Canada)
Hunting Pignut (Canada)
Indian Horse (Canada)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Iqaluit (Canada)
Jalouse (France)

Junior majeur (Canada)
Lady Bird
Last Men In Aleppo
Long Time Running
Mad World (Hong Kong)
Marshall
Maudie (Canada)
Meditation Park (Canada)
Mudbound
My Enemy My Brother
Never Steady Never Still (Canada)
Nous sommes les autres (Canada)
Petit paysan (France)
Phantom Thread

Pieds nus dans l'aube (Canada)
Porcupine Lake (Canada)

Le Problème d'infiltration (Canada)
Resurrecting Hassan (Canada)
Les Rois mongols (Canada)
Roman J. Israel Esq
Rumble The Indians Who Rocked The World
Sled Dogs
Song Of Granite (Ireland)

The Square (Sweden)
Strong Island
Sur la lune de nickel

Tadoussac (Canada)

Le Trip à trois (Canada)
Unarmed Verses (Canada)
Victoria And Abdul (UK)
La Villa (France)
War For The Planet Of The Apes

We're Still Together (Canada)
Wonder Woman

X Quinientos (Canada)

Weak shorts:

Babe I Hate To Go
La Course navette (Canada)

Crème de menthe (Canada)
Edith+Eddie
Fluffy (Serbia)
Garage du soir
Take A Walk On A Wild Side
Three Thousand

Weak TV shows:

Black Sails: Season 4
The Walking Dead: Season 8

Weak cartoons:

Dam The Story Of Kit The Beaver
Dear Basketball
Fox And The Whale
Lou
Manivald
Negative Space (France)
The Tesla World Light (Canada)