When we're not busy covering all things take, Gadgets 360 staff members love to unwind by watching movies. Our staff members' taste is quite varied as you would expect, so we decided to ask everyone in the team to pick their favourite film from 2018. We didn't set any restrictions in terms of genres or languages, and we got everything from underrated regional films to global blockbusters. Here are our favourite movies of 2018.
Abhinav Lal: Annihilation
I'm a science fiction buff. That being said, I am usually disappointed with the technobabble spewed in most movies in this genre, or their dumbed-down plots and super-cliche dialogue. There are a few exceptions that stand out from this excess of pulp, and they don't necessarily need to be hard science fiction where every bit is spelled out, or be something extremely complex that requires multiple viewings to piece together.
Instead, they could follow a formula that Alex Garland's Annihilation used — a story that leaves you wondering just what happened at the end, with multiple possibilities that each have a good chance of being correct.
I haven't read Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy[1], the first book of which the movie is based on, but I'm now excited to do so, thanks to the movie — not something very common with movie adaptations of books for me. The fact that it also features some refined acting, evocative dialogue, great direction, and mind-blowing visuals, all helped make it the best movie of 2018 for me.
Watch Annihilation[2] on Netflix
Aditya Shenoy: Raazi
I don't watch a lot of movies but one movie I was dragged into the theater to watch was Raazi[3]. This is a Hindi spy...