Year-End Lists

The Ringer: Best Movies of 2018, composed by Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman

[see also 2019]

With Apologies To

• The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Rider — Chloé Zhao
• Hereditary — Ari Aster
• A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
• First Man — Damien Chazelle
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
• Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
• Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
• The Old Man & the Gun — David Lowery
• Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
• Mid90s — Jonah Hill
• Widows — Steve McQueen
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
• Wildlife — Paul Dano
• A Quiet Place — John Krasinski
• The Price of Everything — Nathaniel Kahn
• Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Vice — Adam McKay
• Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
• Infinite Football — Corneliu Porumboiu
• The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
• Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
• BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee

1. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
2. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
3. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
4. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
5. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
6. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
7. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
8. Annihilation — Alex Garland
9. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
10. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins