Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Los Angeles Times

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20 honorable mentions

• Bisbee '17
  Robert Greene
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• A Bread Factory
  Patrick Wang
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• First Man
  Damien Chazelle
• Gavagai
  Rob Tregenza
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Paddington 2
  Paul King
• A Quiet Place
  John Krasinski
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• The Sisters Brothers
  Jacques Audiard
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
• Thunder Road
  Jim Cummings
• Where Is Kyra?
  Andrew Dosunmu
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay

1. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
2. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
3. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
4. Black Panther
   Ryan Coogler
5. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
6. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
7. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
8. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
9. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
10. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
11. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
12. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
13. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
14. Widows
    Steve McQueen
15. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
16. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
17. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
18. Amazing Grace
    Sydney Pollack
19. Vox Lux
    Brady Corbet
20. Annihilation
    Alex Garland