Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2018 Movies

Film Comment: Best Films of 2018

12 December 2018

Film Comment: Best Films of 2018, a poll of the magazine's contributors and editors

[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

  1. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
  2. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
  3. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
  4. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
  5. Western — Valeska Grisebach
  6. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
  7. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
  8. The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
  9. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
  10. Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
  11. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
  12. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
  13. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
  14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
  15. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
  16. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
  17. Monrovia, Indiana — Frederick Wiseman
  18. Personal Problems — Bill Gunn
  19. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
  20. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee

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