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2018 Movies

A.V. Club: Best 25 Films of 2018

19 December 2018

The A.V. Club: Best 25 Films of 2018

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  1. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  2. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
  3. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
  4. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  5. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
  6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  7. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  8. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
  9. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
  10. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
  11. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  12. Thoroughbreds
    Cory Finley
  13. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
  14. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
  15. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  16. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
  17. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
  18. Lean On Pete
    Andrew Haigh
  19. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  20. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
  21. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
  22. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
  23. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
  24. A Bread Factory
    Patrick Wang
  25. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu

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