It may not have been a stellar year, but it was more than satisfactory. Wait, did that disappoint you? Was that not bombastic enough? Well, fair warning, you may not want to read the rest of this rundown then.  Not every year is a “great” year for movies as some critics would like you to believe.  But 2018 was more than fine, and that’s a start.

Granted, there were some stunning performances that will be hard to forget over the past 12 months.

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CANNES – At the end of a relatively quiet Cannes Film Festival, competition jury president Cate Blanchett admitted her disappointment with the lack of female-driven narratives. But that shouldn’t take away from the fact diverse voices took much of the spotlight this year. The festival had more Asian films in competition than in many years, Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” was a rare African-American centered tale up for the Palme d’Or and, oh yeah, it was probably the gayest Cannes ever.

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