David Hudson: Top Ten Films of 2018, as posted to Twitter
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Grass — Hong Sang-soo
- The Green Fog — Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
- In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
- Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan