Hey guys, we've got a really great show coming up with Chris Ryan and Adam name and talking about our favorite movies of 2018.

But before you dig into that, I just want to make you aware of a couple of other year and pieces that we have going at the ringer.com.

First and foremost, Adam and I whittled down our big lists of 10 movies that you should check out in case you're confused or are not aware of some of the movies we're going through in this podcast.

I also wrote a year end essay that you'll want to look at, which is about Black Panther and a star is born and a number of the most successful movies of the year.

And why they're all made by men. And there's a ton of other great year and content on the ringer.com.

Miles Surrey wrote about the best superhero movies. Tom Bryan wrote about the best action movies.

We've got the best TV episodes of the year. The best TV shows of the year. The best songs of the year. The best albums of the year.

It's all in the ringer.com. Please check that out right now.

I'm Sean Fennes, the editor in chief of the ringer. And this is the big picture. A conversation show about the best damn movies of 2018.

I am joined by two wonderful guests. The first, of course, is Chris Ryan, editorial director of the ringer cohost of the watch. Chris, hello.

What's up? The second is Adam Naiman, regular contributor to the ringer and one of our favorite film writers. Adam, thank you for doing this.

Thanks, Chris.

We're doing top 10s. It's the end of the year. If you look on the ringer.com, you will see all manner of top 10 lists, albums, songs, performances.

Adam and I collaborated on a top 10 films list. And you know, it was a little bit of a hack. And I think we'll be open about that about the way that we sort of manage the year end list.

And so in an effort to expand our purview, talk about more movies, have a little bit more insight.

Like Chris rave about certain drug cartel dramas. We are here to talk about our own personal top 10s.

Repetation proceeds. That's right. Chris, I'd like for you to start. And if there's, I don't know, if you guys have any reflections about kind of the year that was, feel free to interweave them as we go through this conversation.

I felt like movies were kind of a refuge for me this year just because I watched so much television and the course of doing the watch. So I hundreds of hours of TV probably.

And it was, I think it changed a little bit how I felt about the movies and that I was looking for the movies to be this transportive kind of escapism.

At least for the first nine months of the year. And then I think that in the last few months, I've really sort of returned to like the true power of movies and what they can tell us about what it means to be a human being.

So robots in some case, but mostly human beings. What did they tell us? It's tough out here to be a human being. It's kind of rough.

Yeah, Adam, would you concur that that is the message of the films?

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