Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: Best 25 Films of 2018

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1. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
2. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
3. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
4. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
5. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
7. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
8. First Man
   Damien Chazelle
9. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
10. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
11. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
12. Thoroughbreds
    Cory Finley
13. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
14. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
15. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
16. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
17. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
18. Lean On Pete
    Andrew Haigh
19. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
20. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
21. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
22. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
23. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
24. A Bread Factory
    Patrick Wang
25. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Top 15 Films of 2018 A.A. Dowd · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Allison Shoemaker · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Charles Bramesco · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Jesse Hassenger · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Katie Rife · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Lawrence Garcia · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Mike D’Angelo · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Noel Murray · A.V. Club
• Top 15 Films of 2018 Vikram Murthi · A.V. Club