The quality of entries in this year’s Animation Show of Shows is quite similar to last year’s collection. If you like animation, it’s worth your effort.

As we get ready to wrap up 2018, BPBS’s Matthew Passantino presents his list of the top 10 films of the year.

This fractured drama about an injured artist who escapes into a fantasy world tries to do too many things and isn’t really good at any of them.

This slightly soggy superhero outing gives us the backstory on the king of the sea.

This profile of the infamous vice president can’t commit to indicting or mythologizing the man, or decide if it’s a drama or screwball comedy or an exploration of the past or the present day — and these contradictions make for a movie at war with itself.

This update of the Disney classic soars on the strength of Emily Blunt’s spot-on performance as the magical nanny.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up to Ida, which won Best Foreign Film in 2013, isn’t quite as good, but still might be good enough to put it in the running for the same award this year.

This slow-and-steady South Korean film will sneak up on you in ways you aren’t expecting.

Focused on the little-known world of Industrial Musicals, this amusingly endearing documentary is a celebration of unduly ignored cultural artifacts.

A sister documents her brother’s descent into mental illness and how the system chews up all involved.