Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: Best Films of 2018

[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012]

The first ten in vigorous preferential order

• Zama — Lucrecia Martel
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
• The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
• Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
• Shirkers — Sandi Tan
• Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
• Skate Kitchen — Crystal Moselle
• Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
• Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley

The second twenty in looser preferential order

• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont
• Milford Graves Full Mantis — Jake Meginsky and Neil Young
• Personal Problems — Bill Gunn
• Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
• Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
• Burning — Lee Chang-dong
• Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
• Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Angels Wear White — Vivian Qu
• Vox Lux — Brady Corbet
• Wildlife — Paul Dano
• The Mule — Clint Eastwood
• Ismael’s Ghosts — Arnaud Desplechin
• You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
• Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
• Gemini — Aaron Katz
• The Endless — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• First Reformed — Paul Schrader
• Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman

The next batch in looser still preferential order

• The 15:17 to Paris — Clint Eastwood
• Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
• Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
• Ready Player One — Steven Spielberg
• Double Lover — François Ozon
• If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
• Sollers Point — Matthew Porterfield
• Monrovia, Indiana — Frederick Wiseman
• Barbara — Mathieu Amalric
• Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
• At Eternity’s Gate — Julian Schnabel
• Rendezvous in July — Jacques Becker
• BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
• The 317th Platoon — Pierre Schoendoerffer
• PROTOTYPE — Blake Williams
• Claire’s Camera — Hong Sang-soo
• Infinite Football — Corneliu Porumboiu
• Ghostbox Cowboy — John Maringouin

And so on

• The Young Karl Marx — Raoul Peck
• Annihilation — Alex Garland
• Mrs. Hyde — Serge Bozon
• Rogers Park — Kyle Henry
• The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
• Who We Are Now — Matthew Newton
• Nancy — Christina Choe
• The World Before Your Feet — Jeremy Workman
• A Prayer Before Dawn — Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
• The Rider — Chloé Zhao
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
• Ralph Breaks the Internet — Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
• Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett — Luke Fowler
• The Cured — David Freyne