Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023
Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2023
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2023
more...
2018 Movies
Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2018
21 December 2018
The Film Stage
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Top 50 Films of 2018
[see also
2023
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2022
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2021
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2017
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First Reformed
Paul Schrader
Roma
Alfonso Cuaron
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
Burning
Lee Chang-dong
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Christopher McQuarrie
Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher
The Other Side of the Wind
Orson Welles
Cold War
Pawel Pawlikowski
A Star Is Born
Bradley Cooper
You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay
Zama
Lucrecia Martel
Leave No Trace
Debra Granik
Paddington 2
Paul King
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Support the Girls
Andrew Bujalski
Annihilation
Alex Garland
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley
Western
Valeska Grisebach
The Rider
Chloé Zhao
Minding the Gap
Bing Liu
The Mule
Clint Eastwood
Lover for a Day
Philippe Garrel
The Tale
Jennifer Fox
Let the Sunshine In
Claire Denis
The Day After
Hong Sang-soo
The House That Jack Built
Lars von Trier
Vox Lux
Brady Corbet
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
24 Frames
Abbas Kiarostami
High Life
Claire Denis
An Elephant Sitting Still
Hu Bo
Mandy
Panos Cosmatos
First Man
Damien Chazelle
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
Madeline’s Madeline
Josephine Decker
Private Life
Tamara Jenkins
The 15:17 to Paris
Clint Eastwood
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel & Ethan Coen
Custody
Xavier Legrand
Sunset
László Nemes
Amazing Grace
Sydney Pollack
Before We Vanish
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Revenge
Coralie Fargeat
A Paris Education
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
The Old Man & the Gun
David Lowery
Dead Souls
Wang Bing
Personal Problems
Bill Gunn
Widows
Steve McQueen
Ash is Purest White
Jia Zhang-ke