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

Keith Phipps: 20 Favorite Films of 2018

26 December 2018

Keith Phipps: 20 Favorite Films of 2018, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2017, 2016, 2014]

  1. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
  2. Annihilation — Alex Garland
  3. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
  4. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
  5. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
  6. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
  7. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
  8. Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
  9. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
  10. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
  11. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
  12. The Sisters Brothers — Jacques Audiard
  13. Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
  14. Shirkers — Sandi Tan
  15. Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
  16. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
  17. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
  18. The Old Man & the Gun — David Lowery
  19. Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
  20. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
  21. Suspiria — Luca Guadagnino
  22. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu

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