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

Vanity Fair: K. Austin Collins: 10 Best Movies of 2018

06 December 2018

The Rider - Chloé Zhao

K. Austin Collins: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

Honorable Mentions

  1. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  2. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
    Travis Wilkerson
  3. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
  4. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  6. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
  7. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
  8. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  9. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
  10. Sollers Point
    Matthew Porterfield

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