Year-End Lists

This year’s installment of David Ehrlich’s always enjoyable video countdown: 25 Best Films of 2018

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1. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
2. Paddington 2
   Paul King
3. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
4. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
5. The Tale
   Jennifer Fox
6. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
8. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
9. Wildlife
   Paul Dano
10. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
11. Widows
    Steve McQueen
12. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
13. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
14. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
16. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
17. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
18. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
19. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
    Stephen Nomura Schible
20. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
21. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
22. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
23. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
24. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
25. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper

Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2018

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1. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
2. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
3. Care for Me
   Saba
4. Heaven and Earth
   Kamasi Washington
5. Daytona
   Pusha T
6. Chris
   Christine and the Queens
7. boygenius
   boygenius
8. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
9. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
10. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
11. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
12. Honey
    Robyn
13. Our Raw Heart
    YOB
14. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
15. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
16. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
    Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
17. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
18. Room 25
    Noname
19. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
20. Halloween (Original 2018 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
21. FM!
    Vince Staples
22. Lush
    Snail Mail
23. Bloom
    Troye Sivan
24. Testing
    A$AP Rocky
25. Aviary
    Julia Holter
26. Hive Mind
    The Internet
27. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
28. I Loved You at Your Darkest
    Behemoth
29. Paranoia 2
    Dave East
30. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
31. Collapse
    Aphex Twin
32. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
33. Flow State
    Tash Sultana
34. Post-
    Jeff Rosenstock
35. Hereditary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Colin Stetson
36. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
37. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
38. No Shame
    Lily Allen
39. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
40. WARM
    Jeff Tweedy
41. Quarterthing
    Joey Purp
42. 7
    Beach House
43. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
44. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
45. TA13OO
    Denzel Curry
46. Freedom’s Goblin
    Ty Segall
47. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
48. so sad so sexy
    Lykke Li
49. Superorganism
    Superorganism
50. Wanderer
    Cat Power

Gorilla vs. Bear: 30 Favorite Albums of 2018

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1. Devotion
   Tirzah
2. From the Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. I – IV
   Helena Deland
3. El Mal Querer
   Rosalía
4. Freedom
   Amen Dunes
5. Honey
   Robyn
6. Some Rap Songs
   Earl Sweatshirt
7. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
8. Grid of Points
   Grouper
9. Fire
   Bella Boo
10. No Fool Like an Old Fool
    Caroline Says
11. Beacon
    Tess Roby
12. Aviary
    Julia Holter
13. Nothing 2 Loose
    DJ Healer
14. Channel Tres
    Channel Tres
15. Model Express
    Cindy Lee
16. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
17. Salt
    Mr Twin Sister
18. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
19. Years
    Sun June
20. Die Lit
    Playboi Carti
21. Breakfast
    The Samps
22. Have fun
    Smerz
23. Celeste (Original Soundtrack)
    Lena Raine
24. Nuova Napoli
    Nu Guinea
25. 7
    Beach House
26. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
27. Portrait With Firewood
    Djrum
28. Neoteny
    PYNKIE
29. The Rite of May
    Oklou
30. There’s Always Glimmer
    Gia Margaret

Murielle Joudet: Top 10 Films of 2018, as published by Les Inrockuptibles in no order

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• Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
  Abdellatif Kechiche
• The House That Jack Built
  Lars von Trier
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Thunder Road
  Jim Cummings
• First Man
  Damien Chazelle
• A Paris Education
  Jean-Paul Civeyrac
• Mrs. Hyde
  Serge Bozon
• Leo McCarey Retrospective

This list contributes to:

• Les Inrocks: Top 10 Films of 2018

Marilou Duponchel: Top 10 Films of 2018, as published by Les Inrockuptibles

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

1. Sorry Angel
   Christophe Honoré
2. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
   Abdellatif Kechiche
3. Amanda
   Mikhaël Hers
4. The Trouble with You
   Pierre Salvadori
5. A Paris Education
   Jean-Paul Civeyrac
6. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
7. Sauvage / Wild
   Camille Vidal-Naquet
8. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
9. Treasure Island
   Guillaume Brac
10. Leto
    Kirill Serebrennikov

This list contributes to:

• Les Inrocks: Top 10 Films of 2018

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2018, as published by Artforum

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1. Dead Souls
   Wang Bing
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. A Man Walks in the City
   Marcello Pagliero
4. Thomas Bayrle Exhibit, New Museum, New York
5. The Manet and Ravel Sequences from La Flor
   Mariano Llinás
6. Elegant Beast
   Yûzô Kawashima
7. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
8. The Load
   Ognjen Glavonic
9. Ayka
   Sergei Dvortsevoy
10. The Black Book
    Valeria Sarmiento

Melissa Anderson: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Artforum

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1. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
2. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
   Rainer Werner Fassbinder
3. The Misandrists
   Bruce La Bruce
4. Personal Problems
   Bill Gunn
5. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
5. High Life
   Claire Denis
6. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
   RaMell Ross
7. Nico, 1988
   Susanna Nicchiarelli
8. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
9. “From the Collection of Pearl Bowser” Exhibit at Light Industry, New York
10. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt

J Hoberman: 10 Best Films of 2018, as published by Artforum

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1. Wormwood
   Errol Morris
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. Transit
   Christian Petzold
4. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
5. The Kavanaugh Hearing
6. The Americans
7. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
8. The Waldheim Waltz
   Ruth Beckermann
9. Org
   Fernando Birri
10. Dialogue with Che
    José Rodriguez-Soltero

Amy Taubin: Best Films of 2018, as published by Artforum

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1. Adrian Piper exhibit at Museum of Modern Art, New York
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
4. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
5. Life & Nothing More
   Antonio Méndez Esparza
6. Ash is Purest White
   Jia Zhang-ke
7. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
8. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
9. At Eternity’s Gate
   Julian Schnabel
10. American Dharma
    Errol Morris
10. Fahrenheit 11/9
    Michael Moore
10. The Feeling of Being Watched
    Assia Boundaoui
10. The King
    Eugene Jarecki
10. United Skates
    Dyana Winkler & Tina Brown
10. Watergate
    Charles Ferguson

John Waters: 10 Best Films of 2018, as published by Artforum

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1. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
   Bruno Dumont
2. American Animals
   Bart Layton
3. Nico, 1988
   Susanna Nicchiarelli
4. Mom and Dad
   Brian Taylor
5. Blindspotting
   Carlos López Estrada
6. The Green Fog
   Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
7. Custody
   Xavier Legrand
8. Sollers Point
   Matthew Porterfield
9. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
   John Ridley
10. Permanent Green Light
    Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley