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Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield, left) and his artist girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), navigate poverty, sudden wealth and racism in Boots Riley’s satire “Sorry to Bother You.” (Photo courtesy Annapurna Pictures)

Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield, left) and his artist girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), navigate poverty, sudden wealth and racism in Boots Riley’s satire “Sorry to Bother You.” (Photo courtesy Annapurna Pictures)

The best movies of 2018 — and the worst

December 26, 2018 by Sean P. Means

In compiling my list of the top 10 movies of 2018, I found the lines between what’s big and what’s important becoming blurred.

Blockbusters featuring superheroes stood side by side with challenging indies from the Sundance Film Festival. The films, regardless of budget, blended humor and excitement with deep thoughts about divisions by race, culture and class, exploring the traumas of adolescence, domestic abuse, police violence, and the unjust imprisonment of a Peruvian bear.

Read my list of the top 10 movies of 2018 at sltrib.com.

December 26, 2018 /Sean P. Means
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