I participated in this poll, but I don’t agree with this choice: Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a good flick, but hardly the film of the year.
From HeyUGuys:
In two of the last three years, this poll has come down to ONE vote. And while at first it seemed like we’d see another close finish in 2018 – Avengers: Infinity War was always in the mix, and for a good stretch Phantom Thread was in pole position – in the end Tom Cruise did what he always does and ran away with it. After a whopping 197 lists (a new record!) were counted, Mission: Impossible – Fallout emerged as your best movie of 2018.
See the whole list — as well as the individual lists of every critic who participated — at HeyUGuys. Because HeyUGuys is a UK-based site, these lists rank only films that actually opened in UK cinemas during 2018… so my own list includes films like Downsizing, which was a 2017 film for many purposes (such as for Oscar eligibility, and for the Online Film Critics Society awards, which I also vote in), and Mary Magdalene, which still does not have a US release date. And my list for HeyUGuys does not include some films at the top of my 2018 ranking (for which I go by Oscar- and OFCS-eligibility rules, for the most part), such as Paddington 2, which opened in the UK in 2017, or The Favourite or Border, both of which will debut in UK cinemas in 2019.
I’m sure this is all entirely more complicated than it needs to be.
*headscratch*
Yeah, good film, but how in hell does it come out on top in the same year as Black Panther, Spider-Verse, A Quiet Place, Crazy Rich Asians, Widows, and Roma, just to name a few? Is it just that it showed up on the most lists, even if it wasn’t anyone’s number one pick? It should be “most included film” rather than “best film” if that’s the case.
Fallout is by far the most entertaining to watch
Our choices are not weighted in this tabulation. So, if everyone had it on their personal lists as, in their mind, the 10th-best movie of the year, yeah, it could conceivably end up as the “best” movie of the year. I guess there *is* a certain value in that, that if many critics consider it *among* the best movies of the year it’s probably pretty darn good. (MIF is not in my top 10. But it’s been an unusual strong year for film.)
I get that. The framing is just a little misleading. I’d be okay with: “Most Critics Agree: MI:F is One of the Ten Best Films of the Year!”
This poll does not poll “Most Critics,” though. :-)
The Oscars work the same way. It’s why films that many people see as mediocre sometimes win Best Picture.
i am a huge fan of MI, but i think Rogue Nation was by far the best of the MI movies.
Yes, I liked Rogue Nation better myself. I wouldn’t say it’s the best but I did like it better than Fallout.
I agree.