The A.V. Club: Best 25 Films of 2018
[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010s]
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- First Man — Damien Chazelle
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
- Lean On Pete — Andrew Haigh
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
- Shirkers — Sandi Tan
- A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu