Richard Brody: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The New Yorker
[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
- Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- Werewolf — Ashley McKenzie
- Mrs. Hyde — Serge Bozon
- The Old Man & the Gun — David Lowery
- Shirkers — Sandi Tan
- Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont
- Claire’s Camera — Hong Sang-soo
- Infinite Football — Corneliu Porumboiu
- Monrovia, Indiana — Frederick Wiseman
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Sollers Point — Matthew Porterfield
- Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
- Golden Exits — Alex Ross Perry
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- I Am Not a Witch — Rungano Nyoni
- A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
- The 15:17 to Paris — Clint Eastwood
- The Rest I Make Up — Michelle Morgan
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Gavagai — Rob Tregenza
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- Notes on an Appearance — Ricky D'Ambrose
- The Other Side of Everything — Mila Turajlic
- The Spy Who Dumped Me — Susanna Fogel
- Scarred Hearts — Radu Jude
- Pow Wow — Robinson Devor
- A Season in France — Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable — Sasha Waters Freyer
- The Hate U Give — George Tillman Jr.
- The Waldheim Waltz — Ruth Beckermann