Year-End Lists

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2017]

1. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
2. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
4. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
6. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
7. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
8. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
9. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
10. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
11. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
12. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
13. Paddington 2
    Paul King
14. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
16. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
17. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
18. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
19. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
20. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
21. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
22. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood
23. Lover for a Day
    Philippe Garrel
24. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
25. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
26. The Day After
    Hong Sang-soo
27. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
28. Vox Lux
    Brady Corbet
29. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
30. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
31. High Life
    Claire Denis
32. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
33. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
34. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
35. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
36. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
37. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
38. The 15:17 to Paris
    Clint Eastwood
39. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
40. Custody
    Xavier Legrand
41. Sunset
    László Nemes
42. Amazing Grace
    Sydney Pollack
43. Before We Vanish
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
44. Revenge
    Coralie Fargeat
45. A Paris Education
    Jean-Paul Civeyrac
46. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
47. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing
48. Personal Problems
    Bill Gunn
49. Widows
    Steve McQueen
50. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke