Year-End Lists

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Movies of 2018, as submitted to La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• The Image Book
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney
  Chloé Galibert-Laîné

La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Movies of 2018 (an annual survey of 150 programmers, critics, and filmmakers from around the world, organized by Roger Koza)

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• The Image Book
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Happy as Lazzaro
  Alice Rohrwacher
• La Flor
  Mariano Llinás
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron

Nicole Brenez: Best Movies of 2018, as submitted to La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

• The Heroic Moor. The Border is Burning
  Elisabeth Perceval and Nicolas Klotz
• Film Catastrophe
  Paul Grivas
• Maré
  Amaranta César
• Jamilia
  Aminatou Echard
• Of Ashes and Embers
  Manon Ott

Daniel Kasman: Favorite Films of 2018, as posted by Mubi along with a list of favorite revivals

[see also 2017]

1. Blue
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
4. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
5. The Waldheim Waltz
   Ruth Beckermann
6. Unsane
   Steven Soderbergh
7. The Grand Bizarre
   Jodie Mack
8. The Red Shadow (director's cut)
   Dominik Graf
9. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
   Roberto Minervini
10. Veslemøy's Song
    Sofia Bohdanowicz

Chiara Marañón: Favorite Films of 2018, as posted by Mubi along with a list of favorite revivals

1. High Life
   Claire Denis
2. La Flor
   Mariano Llinás
3. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Angela's Diaries: Two Filmmakers
   Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
6. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
7. One or Two Questions
   Kristina Konrad
8. Those Who Desire
   Elena López Riera
9. Hotel by the River
   Hong Sang-soo
10. La película infinita
    Leandro Listorti

Anaïs Lebrun: Favorite Films of 2018, as posted by Mubi along with a list of favorite revivals

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
3. The Green Fog
   Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
4. Petra
   Jaime Rosales
5. Jamilia
   Aminatou Echard
6. Atlanta, episode "FUBU"
   Donald Glover
7. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
8. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
9. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
   Roberto Minervini
10. Knife+Heart
    Yann Gonzalez

Keith Phipps: 20 Favorite Films of 2018, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
5. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
6. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
7. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
8. Bisbee '17
   Robert Greene
9. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
10. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
11. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
12. The Sisters Brothers
    Jacques Audiard
12. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
13. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
13. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
14. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
15. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
16. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
17. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
18. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
    Travis Wilkerson
19. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
20. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu

The Quietus: Top Films of 2018

• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Cocote
  Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
• The Wild Boys
  Bertrand Mandico
• A Gentle Creature
  Sergei Loznitsa
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
  Steve Loveridge
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• An Elephant Sitting Still
  Hu Bo

Tasha Robinson: Top 10 Films of 2018, as discussed on Filmspotting

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
2. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
3. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
5. Bad Times at the El Royale
   Drew Goddard
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
7. Mid90s
   Jonah Hill
8. Marrowbone
   Sergio G. Sánchez
9. Apostle
   Gareth Evans
10. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins

Elena Lazic: Top 10 Films of 2018, as published by Little White Lies

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
2. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
3. Birds of Passage
   Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
4. Obscuro Barroco
   Evangelia Kranioti
5. The House That Jack Built
   Lars von Trier
6. Revenge
   Coralie Fargeat
7. Dragged Across Concrete
   S. Craig Zahler
8. Ray & Liz
   Richard Billingham
9. Jessica Forever
   Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
10. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski

This list contributes to:

• Little White Lies: 30 Best Films of 2018