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Barack Obama reveals his cinephile self with his best of 2018 list. Add them to your watchlist.

Former President Barack Obama speaks to Obama Foundation Fellows gathered on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago. Obama met with several Democrats considering running for president in 2020. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)

Barack Obama started a tradition while in office, sharing his year-end list of favourites in books, movies, and music. The man who has always been an inspiration continues to have the effect, reminding us to pause and reflect and cherish. And the fact that his list has cinephilia written all over it only makes us adore him more.

Here are his favourite 15 films of 2018 – 

  1. Annihilation
  2. Black Panther
  3. BlacKkKlansman
  4. Blindspotting
  5. Burning
  6. The Death of Stalin
  7. Eighth Grade
  8. If Beale Street Could Talk
  9. Leave No Trace
  10. Minding the Gap
  11. The Rider
  12. Roma
  13. Shoplifters
  14. Support the Girls
  15. Won’t You Be My Neighbor
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul makes it onto his books list this year, the 1961 novel by the Indian British Booker Prize winning author who passed away this August 2018. If you want to find out his list of favourite books and movies too, go here. 
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