Cinephilia is a year-round condition, and thus it’s always an ideal time to honor the best of the current movie crop. Now nearing the end of 2018, a wide range of stellar offerings have illustrated that, no matter the genre, potential greatness abounds at both the multiplex and the art house. With seasons to go until the calendar once again turns, this rundown will undoubtedly transform in a variety of unexpected ways before reaching its final form in December—a situation almost guaranteed by the fact that works from the likes of Alfonso Cuarón, Robert Zemeckis, and Barry Jenkins are still on their way. Nonetheless, at present, these are our picks for the best movies of 2018.                         1. SWEET COUNTRY In the bleak, barren Outback circa 1929, an Aboriginal man named Sam Kelly (Hamilton Morris) finds himself on the run from pursuers—with his wife in tow— after he kills a nasty white man in self-defense. Dramatized without musical accompaniment, Warwick Thornton’s gripp