Glenn Kenny: Best Films of 2018
[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010s]
- 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 first ten in vigorous 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 second twenty in looser 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
The next batch in looser still preferential order
- 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