Scout Tafoya: Favourite Films of 2018
[see also 2017]
- Black Mother — Khalik Allah
- Personal Problems — Bill Gunn
- Something Good - Negro Kiss
- Piu Piu — Naima Ramos-Chapman
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Widows — Steve McQueen
- 24 Frames — Abbas Kiarostami
- Barbara — Mathieu Amalric
- High Life — Claire Denis
- Scarred Hearts — Radu Jude
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Dark — Paul Schrader
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Third Murder — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- Sweet Country — Warwick Thornton
- The Guardians — Xavier Beauvois
- Your Face — Tsai Ming-liang
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- Pass Over — Spike Lee
- The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
- Sorry Angel — Christophe Honoré
- Mosaic — Steven Soderbergh
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda — Stephen Nomura Schible
- Creed II — Steven Caple Jr.
- All Square — John Hyams
- The Mule — Clint Eastwood
- The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
- The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener
- Mr. SOUL! — Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
- Blockers — Kay Cannon
- Music When the Lights Go Out — Ismael Caneppele
- Dovlatov — Aleksey German
- A Family Tour — Ying Liang
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer — various artists
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
- Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
- Diane — Kent Jones
- Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
- Monrovia, Indiana — Frederick Wiseman
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan
- The Green Fog — Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
- The Endless — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
- Annihilation — Alex Garland
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- The House That Jack Built — Lars von Trier
- Early Man — Nick Park
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Illang: The Wolf Brigade — Kim Jee-Woon
- The First Purge — Gerard McMurray
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- Searching for Ingmar Bergman — Margarethe von Trotta
- Where Is Kyra? — Andrew Dosunmu
- Nancy — Christina Choe
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Ray Meets Helen — Alan Rudolph
- Shadow — Zhang Yimou
- The Predator — Shane Black
- The Little Drummer Girl — Park Chan-wook
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Dark River — Clio Barnard
- Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
- Waiting for the Barbarians — Eugène Green
- Manhunt — John Woo
- Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — Gus Van Sant
- Incident in a Ghostland — Pascal Laugier
- Laplace's Witch — Takashi Miike
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable — Takashi Miike
- Unrest — Philippe Grandrieux
- The 15:17 to Paris — Clint Eastwood
- Disobedience — Sebastián Lelio
- Crazy Rich Asians — Jon M. Chu
- Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
- Cruise — Robert Siegel
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Hotel by the River — Hong Sang-soo
- Between Worlds — Maria Pulera
- Cold Skin — Xavier Gens
- A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Classical Period — Ted Fendt
- In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
- They Shall Not Grow Old — Peter Jackson
- Las Sandinistas! — Jenny Murray
- Upgrade — Leigh Whannell
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- 3 Faces — Jafar Panahi
- The Captain — Robert Schwentke
- A Very English Scandal
- Sol Alegria — Tavinho Teixeira
- The Glass Note — Mary Helena Clark
- Outrage Coda — Takeshi Kitano
- A Gentle Creature — Sergei Loznitsa
- Halloween — David Gordon Green
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
- Outlaw King — David Mackenzie
- Apostle — Gareth Evans
- Thunder Road — Jim Cummings
- Mom and Dad — Brian Taylor
- The Inhabitant — Guillermo Amoedo
- The Witch in the Window — Andy Mitton
- The Misandrists — Bruce La Bruce
- Winchester — Michael and Peter Spierig
- Marfa Girl 2 — Larry Clark
- Gemini — Aaron Katz