Year-End Lists

Jeffrey M. Anderson: Top Ten Films of 2018, as posted at Combustible Celluloid

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
5. 24 Frames
   Abbas Kiarostami
6. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
7. Black Panther
   Ryan Coogler
8. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
9. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman

9 Runners up (in alphabetical order)

• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• Hereditary
  Ari Aster
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• A Quiet Place
  John Krasinski
• Stan & Ollie
  Jon S. Baird
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Monrovia, Indiana
  Frederick Wiseman

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)

• Annihilation
  Alex Garland
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
  Peyton Reed
• Avengers: Infinity Wars
  Anthony and Joe Russo
• Destroyer
  Karyn Kusama
• Disobedience
  Sebastián Lelio
• The Great Buster
  Peter Bogdanovich
• The Guilty
  Gustav Möller
• Incredibles 2
  Brad Bird
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  Christopher McQuarrie
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• The Old Man & the Gun
  David Lowery
• Paddington 2
  Paul King
• Ready Player One
  Steven Spielberg
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Searching
  Aneesh Chaganty
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel