Year-End Lists

Michael Sicinski: Top 50 Films of 2018, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024 • 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023 • The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022 • The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s • 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]

1. The Grand Bizarre
   Jodie Mack
2. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
   Nathaniel Dorsky
3. Gens du lac
   Jean-Marie Straub
4. Bisbee '17
   Robert Greene
5. A Return
   James Edmonds
6. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
7. Transit
   Christian Petzold
8. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
9. Fainting Spells
   Sky Hopinka
10. Season of the Devil
    Lav Diaz
11. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing
12. Walled Unwalled
    Lawrence Abu Hamdan
13. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
14. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
15. Grass
    Hong Sang-soo
16. Sorry Angel
    Christophe Honoré
17. Fatal Pulse
    Damon Packard
18. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
    Roberto Minervini
19. Hoarders Without Borders
    Jodie Mack
20. A Bread Factory
    Patrick Wang
21. Terror Nullius
    Soda_Jerk
22. A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater
    Jonathan Schwartz
23. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
24. Sketches and Portraits for Jean Michel
    Ephraim Asili
25. Binary Stars
    Andrew Busti
26. ALTIPLANO
    Malena Szlam
27. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
28. Life After Love
    Zachary Epcar
29. Anna’s War
    Aleksei Fedorchenko
30. Now, At Last
    Ben Rivers
31. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
32. Mahogany Too
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
33. Fountains of Paris
    Stephen Broomer
34. Donbass
    Sergei Loznitsa
35. Kinshasa Makambo
    Dieudo Hamadi
36. Goddess
    Kevin Jerome Everson
37. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
38. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
39. Blue
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
40. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
41. Insect
    Jan Švankmajer
42. Black Mother
    Khalik Allah
43. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
44. Edge of the Knife
    Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
45. Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km
    Zhang Mengqi
46. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
47. Knife+Heart
    Yann Gonzalez
48. Treasure Island
    Guillaume Brac
49. Unsane
    Steven Soderbergh
50. Atomic Garden
    Ana Vaz