Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2018 Movies

Los Angeles Times: Justin Chang: Best Movies of 2018

13 December 2018

Justin Chang: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  2. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  3. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  4. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
  5. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
  6. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  7. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  8. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  9. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  10. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
  11. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  12. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
  13. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
  14. Widows
    Steve McQueen
  15. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
  16. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
  17. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
  18. Amazing Grace
    Sydney Pollack
  19. Vox Lux
    Brady Corbet
  20. Annihilation
    Alex Garland

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