2018 has been a great year for movies
There were fantastic old-school blockbusters like
Mission: Impossible - Fallout and
A Star Is Born, big superhero movies like
Avengers: Infinity War and
Black Panther, acclaimed indies like
Sorry To Bother You and
BlacKkKlansman, and terrifying horror like
Hereditary and
A Quiet Place.
Review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes has released its list of all the certified 'Fresh' movies from 2018 - that's all the movies that remain above 70 percent after receiving at least 40 reviews and at least five reviews from their list of 'top critics'.
Almost 200 movies claimed that honour, and
the full list is worth going through if you are looking for something to watch.
However, only nine movies from 2018 received a 'perfect' 100 percent rating. The way Rotten Tomatoes works, it is harder for bigger movies to do so well, as they get more reviews, and therefore more likely to get at least one person being a needless contrarian and ruining the rating.
(In case you are wondering, the highest rating mainstream Hollywood movies are
Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Black Panther and
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, all on 97 percent).
So the top nine are mostly more indie/arthouse fare - including the Ben Foster-starring drama
Leave No Trace and the Netflix special
Nanette.
But the film that comes out on top - that is, the film with a 100 perfect fresh ranking that also had the most reviews - is surprisingly
Paddington 2. Yes, technically, it came out in the UK in December 2017, but the site is going by US release dates.
Plus, the
Paddington films are wonderful, and we don't mind recommending them again.
Here is the full list of 100% fresh films:
Night Comes on
Starring: Dominique Fishback, John Earl Jelks, Max Casella, Tatum Marilyn Hall
Directed By: Jordana Spiro
Oh Lucy!
Starring: Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, Shioli Kutsuna, Megan Mullally
Directed By: Atsuko Hirayanagi
Shirkers
Starring: Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
Directed By: Sandi Tan
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Starring: Hannah Gadsby
Pick of the Litter
Directed By: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy Jr.
Minding The Gap
Directed By: Bing Liu
Summer 1993
Starring: Laia Artigas, Paula Blanco, Etna Campillo, Bruna Cusí
Directed By: Carla Simón
Leave No Trace
Starring: Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey
Directed By: Debra Granik
Paddington 2
Starring: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Paul King