Best Movies of 1978
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Superman (1978)Christopher Reeve makes the impossible look effortless, and every cape film since has been borrowing from him.Read the review
The Deer HunterCimino's Vietnam epic is overwhelming in its long wedding and its mountain silences, and far shakier on Vietnam itself.
Autumn SonataTwo great actresses play one long night of accusation, and Ingrid Bergman, in her final film role, refuses to let the mother become the villain.
HalloweenMade for almost nothing and still the cleanest slasher ever built, though the imitators exposed how thin it is.