Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Movies of 2018

[see also 2017, 2015, 2010s]

1. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
2. Annihilation — Alex Garland
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
4. Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
5. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
7. Hereditary — Ari Aster
8. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
9. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
10. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
11. Widows — Steve McQueen
12. Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
13. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
14. Lean On Pete — Andrew Haigh
15. Paddington 2 — Paul King
16. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
17. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
19. Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
20. Incredibles 2 — Brad Bird
21. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
22. The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
23. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
24. Avengers: Infinity Wars — Anthony and Joe Russo
25. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
26. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
27. A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
28. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
29. Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
30. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
31. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
32. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
33. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
34. Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
35. Bodied — Joseph Kahn
36. Apostle — Gareth Evans
37. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
38. First Man — Damien Chazelle
39. Suspiria — Luca Guadagnino
40. Blindspotting — Carlos López Estrada
41. Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley
42. A Quiet Place — John Krasinski
43. Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
44. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
45. The Night Comes for Us — Timo Tjahjanto
46. Thunder Road — Jim Cummings
47. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
48. Shirkers — Sandi Tan
49. Crazy Rich Asians — Jon M. Chu
50. The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan