Year-End Lists

Valerie Ettenhofer: Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018, as published by Film School Rejects

More noteworthy 2018 films directed by women

• Angels Wear White
  Vivian Qu
• Blame
  Quinn Shephard
• Blockers
  Kay Cannon
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• Dumplin'
  Anne Fletcher
• Half the Picture
  Amy Adrion
• Happy as Lazzaro
  Alice Rohrwacher
• Mary Shelley
  Haifaa al-Mansour
• Oh Lucy!
  Atsuko Hirayanagi
• On Her Shoulders
  Alexandria Bombach
• The Rachel Divide
  Laura Brownson
• RBG
  Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• Rafiki
  Wanuri Kahiu
• Seeing Allred
  Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain
• Set It Up
  Claire Scanlon
• Skate Kitchen
  Crystal Moselle
• The Spy Who Dumped Me
  Susanna Fogel
• The Strange Ones
  Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff
• I Think We're Alone Now
  Reed Morano
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
  Arwen Curry
• What They Had
  Elizabeth Chomko
• A Wrinkle in Time
  Ava DuVernay
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel

• Free Solo
  Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
• I Am Not a Witch
  Rungano Nyoni
• The Kindergarten Teacher
  Nadav Lapid
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Love, Gilda
  Lisa Dapolito
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post
  Desiree Akhavan
• Night Comes On
  Jordana Spiro
• Outside In
  Lynn Shelton
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Revenge
  Coralie Fargeat
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• The Tale
  Jennifer Fox
• Tigers Are Not Afraid
  Issa López
• To All the Boys I've Loved Before
  Susan Johnson
• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay