Our cinema team have been putting their heads together to come up with their favourite films released in the UK in 2018.

Based on what struck a chord, caused the most emotion (happy or sad!) or were simply the very best, here in alphabetical order are Johnathan and Lauren's combined top 18 of 2018:

1. 120 BPM (dir. Robin Campillo)
2. Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland)
3. Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler)
4. BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee)
5. Coco (dir. Lee Unkrich & Adrien Molina)
6. Cold War (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)
7. First Man (dir. Damien Chazelle)
8. Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster)
9. Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig)
10. Lean On Pete (dir. Andrew Haigh)
11. Leave No Trace (dir. Debra Granik)
12. Mary Poppins Returns (dir. Rob Marshall)
13. Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
14. Shoplifters (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
15. Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
16. Sweet Country (dir. Warwick Thornton)
17. Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)
18. You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay)