I don’t use the word “best” in my year-end film pieces anymore. Too many people tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. I now go for the word “favorites,” as in the films I liked most, the ones that spoke to me, that showed me something I hadn’t seen before or made me laugh or cry or triggered some other sort of emotional reaction.Going at it by the numbers, I watched 132 new movies in 2018, a bit down from my usual average [...]