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2018 Movies

Esquire: Nick Schager: 25 Best Movies of 2018

31 December 2018

Nick Schager: 25 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Esquire

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Honorable Mention

  1. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
  2. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
  3. Love After Love
    Russell Harbaugh
  4. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  5. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
  6. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
  7. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  8. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  9. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
  10. Thunder Road
    Jim Cummings
  11. A Private War
    Matthew Heineman
  12. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  13. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
  14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  15. Filmworker
    Tony Zierra
  16. Paddington 2
    Paul King
  17. The Endless
    Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
  18. A Prayer Before Dawn
    Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
  19. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
  20. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  21. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
  22. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
  23. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  24. I Am Not a Witch
    Rungano Nyoni
  25. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood

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