Paul Dano

2018 has come and gone, so it’s time to countdown the year’s best films, from Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, to Best Picture winner The Shape of Water and Chloe Zhao’s indie The Rider.

Film making duo Daniels make a striking debut with this surreal tale of a suicidal man and the dead body that keeps him alive.

As 2015 comes to a close and we head into 2016, it’s time to take a look back at the top 20 films of the year.

Paul Dano and John Cusack star as the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson at two very different stages in his life in this unconventional biopic.

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is essential cinema that avoids awards-friendly melodrama.

Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal impress in Denis Villeneuve’s dark, twisted thriller Prisoners.

A spaceship arrives in 19th century Arizona, abducting civilians. The locals, led by mysterious outlaw Danel Craig, decide to fight back.