TorrentFreak's most pirated movies list is an excellent gauge of popular movies as well as the Hollywood zeitgeist. Tis perhaps a weird dry spell among the blockbustery flicks preferred by the world's download pirates. New this week on the top 10 are last year's All the Money in the World (you know, the film without Kevin Spacey), horror prequel Insidious: The Last Key, and what looks like the best of the lot, I Kill Giants. What gave way for these films to make the top of the list may surprise you: Gone from the top 10 for the first time in a long, long while are Thor: Ragnarok, and Justice League. Less surprising is the disappearance of the bull known as Ferdinand. If you've seen any movies in the top 10, illegally or legally, we'd love to hear what you think. For example: Man, just how great is I Kill Giants? This article originally appeared on PCMag.com. 1 The Greatest Showman Looking for a new musical, something like La La Land meets Moulin Rouge!? Perhaps a highly fictionalized retelling of the launch of P.T. Barnum's career will do? Movie Bob at Geek.com did not like it, saying of the notorious con artist and sociopath that "Hugh Jackman plays him as a starry-eyed dreamer who’s enlightened ahead of his time about 'different people' ranging from his Human Oddities to interracial couples, and posits that his exploitation of them as attractions was a good thing because he helped them learn to love themselves by becoming famous." (The most fictional aspect of all: the real Barnum never came close to having Hugh Jackman's cheekbones and dance moves.) 2 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Episode VIII hit with a bang last year and, as usual, put Star Wars fandom on the fence between fawning love and outright hatred. (SPOILERS FOLLOW) Some didn't like the fact that a certain Skywalker wasn't quite as heroic as expected after 30 years, or that Finn and his new friend Rose went on a weird tangent to Space Vegas, or that another Skywalker with a different name suddenly had some Force powers...never mind the slow-speed chase through space that took hours. Get past all that and you've got one of the best flicks in the galaxy far, far away since—yeah, I'll say it—The Empire Strikes Back. In the words of Movie Bob and Tony the Tiger: "It's Great!" If you're not looking forward to Episode IX now, you're lying. 3 I Kill Giants You may think you've seen this before if you saw Where the Wild Things Are or A Monster Calls. It shares some DNA, but this film, based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura, has some tricks—it's more akin to Pan's Labyrinth, which is high praise indeed. Seeing it brought to life on the screen is just as breathtaking. Kelly (he's written for lots of comics, including Deadpool, and co-created cartoon superhero Ben 10) also wrote the screenplay. 4 Annihilation Take the weird and terrifying novel by Jeff VanderMeer, the beginning of his Southern Reach trilogy, then put Alex Garland—director of Ex Machina—in charge of adapting it. It's as strange and dreamy and scary as you'd imagine, with visuals that should be seen on the big screen (even if it's not much like the book, to be honest). That's probably why it's not making much money but earning lots of critical praise. It's "thinking-person's sci-fi" according to Movie Bob at Geek.com, and there for "almost purposefully designed to be divisive." 5 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Take the basics of the Robin Williams film (based on a book) about a board game, modern it up with video games and throw in The Rock, and you’ve got a recipe for a fun action flick. Movie Bob calls it merely “passable” in his review at Geek.com, and that it probably isn’t really for fans of the original (since they seem relatively unrelated outside of the name). But you could do worse with your torrent time. Probably. 6 Black Panther This latest film in the MCU has only been out a few weeks, but it's already a film phenomenon and massive record-breaker. And Black Panther is a damn good superhero flick—Movie Bob at Geek.com calls it "an exceptional film" and "the best of its type since The Avengers." No wonder the world's army of movie pirates has jumped on downloading this HDTS copy (it's recorded in a movie theater but with the digital sound from the source). 7 Insidious: The Last Key A horror movie doesn't even have to be that good to make bank. The reviews on this, the fourth Insidious installment (and second prequel to the original) are only around 31 percent at Rotten Tomatoes, but that didn't prevent it from making more than it cost (it cost $10 millon and took in $166.2 million worldwide). With numbers like that, it doesn't matter what the film is about. Horror fans will go watch (or illegally download) anything for a few jump scares. For the record, Movie Bob at Geek.com liked it. 8 The Shape of Water You didn't know you wanted to see a love story about a merman and a human woman? Well, you do—because this one, from Guillermo del Toro, director of the equally beautiful and haunting Pan's Labyrinth (and Pacific Rim), is stunning. It also just won two major Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Picture (which rights the wrong against geekdom from the early 80s when E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial lost Best Picture to Gandhi). Geek.com's Movie Bob nailed it in calling the movie "an R-rated, gory, proudly nasty unofficial hypothetical sequel to Creature From The Black Lagoon." Except in this one, the merman is the love interest, not the monster. 9 Maze Runner: The Death Cure Here's a sequel that almost didn't come out, and not because the first two movies didn't make a lot of money (because they did OK, out-earning their production budget, though they didn’t exactly become the new Hunger Games). The film was delayed by a year when star Dylan O'Brien got a head injury while shooting. But now it's here, and fans of the first two, or the books, should give it a look. If you haven't seen them, don't start here. Duh. Movie Bob at Geek.com was not impressed by this one or the previous two. 10 All the Money In the World Watch that trailer above of this Ridley Scott film and you know what you don't see? Kevin Spacey. His scandal broke before this film came out in late 2017—giving Scott enough time to reshoot all of his scenes with the actor he originally wanted to play J. Paul Getty, the legendary Christopher Plummer. It's an improvement, in all ways. The rest of the film is pretty great too, retelling the tale of Getty's grandchild being kidnapped, and Getty refusing to pay the ransom. What a douche. 11 1. Maleficent Angelina Jolie stars as a scorned fairy driven to curse a baby princess, only to discover that the infant may be the only person who can bring peace to a war-torn land.

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