Michael Sicinski: Top 50 Films of 2018, as posted to Letterboxd
[see also Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018, Top 25 Films of 2017, Top 10 Films of 2016, Top 12 Films of 2014, Top 10 Films of 2013, Top 12 Films of 2012]
- The Grand Bizarre — Jodie Mack
- Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) — Nathaniel Dorsky
- Gens du lac — Jean-Marie Straub
- Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
- A Return — James Edmonds
- The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Fainting Spells — Sky Hopinka
- Season of the Devil — Lav Diaz
- Dead Souls — Wang Bing
- Walled Unwalled — Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
- Grass — Hong Sang-soo
- Sorry Angel — Christophe Honoré
- Fatal Pulse — Damon Packard
- What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? — Roberto Minervini
- Hoarders Without Borders — Jodie Mack
- A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
- Terror Nullius — Soda_Jerk
- A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater — Jonathan Schwartz
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Sketches and Portraits for Jean Michel — Ephraim Asili
- Binary Stars — Andrew Busti
- ALTIPLANO — Malena Szlam
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- Life After Love — Zachary Epcar
- Anna’s War — Aleksei Fedorchenko
- Now, At Last — Ben Rivers
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Mahogany Too — Akosua Adoma Owusu
- Fountains of Paris — Stephen Broomer
- Donbass — Sergei Loznitsa
- Kinshasa Makambo — Dieudo Hamadi
- Goddess — Kevin Jerome Everson
- Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- Blue — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
- Insect — Jan Švankmajer
- Black Mother — Khalik Allah
- The Tale — Jennifer Fox
- Edge of the Knife — Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
- Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km — Zhang Mengqi
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Knife+Heart — Yann Gonzalez
- Treasure Island — Guillaume Brac
- Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
- Atomic Garden — Ana Vaz