Any great movie years needs a variety of different types of movies. First, you have to have massive heavyweights during Oscar season. Second, you need to have a handful of movies excluded from contention simply because there isn’t enough room. These would be movies that, during a normal, might not just be considered for a nomination but might win some. These are movies that when you look at your Top 10 list at the end of the year and don’t see that film’s title make you scratch your head until you see the list of titles there instead, and then you say to yourself, “Okay, that makes sense.” Third, I think a great movie year needs to have at least one memorable comedy and one memorable horror as well. I am not a huge documentary guy (I like them but don’t see them in the theater and don’t review them). I often refer to 2010 as being the best year for movies in my lifetime. It hit, mostly, all of the above criteria. With under-the-radar terror films like Devil, The Reef, and Frozen…and I’m not talking about the Elsa and Anna Frozen, it had enough of the horror (seriously, see the ski-lift movie called Frozen). I was worried about the comedies of that year at first, but The Other Guys, Date Night, and Get Him to the Greek checked this checkbox. And then there were amazing movies like True Grit and The Kids Are All Right that would have made most year’s Top 10 List. The final category of a great movie year is being hit by great movies that flew completely under the radar. 2010 had both Rabbit Hole and Love and Other Drugs to fight that category. 2018 has at least one of those under the radar gems with the surprise audience and critic hit Overlord.
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