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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 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 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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