The 10 Best Films of the 2018 Berlin Film Festival

Critics Guy Lodge, Jay Weissberg and Jessica Kiang selected some of their favorite films of the 2018 Berlin Film Festival, including titles from Wes Anderson, Alonso Ruizpalacios and Julien Faraut.“Isle of Dogs”After the non-events of “Nobody Wants the Night” and “Django” in the last two years, Berlin’s opening-night slot needed a shot in the arm.

Luckily, Wes Anderson was on hand to deliver the best Berlinale opener since, well, his own “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in 2014.

Independent cinema’s reigning king of quirk returns to the stop-motion territory of “Fantastic Mr.

Fox,” but to weirder and more beguiling effect this time.

A gorgeously rendered man’s-best-friend adventure mixed in with intricate Japanophilia and a low-key liberal message, it was a welcome shot of inspired silliness in a festival otherwise short on laughs.

– Gl“Transit”In a low-key Competition lineup short on major auteur names, Germany’s Christian Petzold was marked early on as one of

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