Year-End Lists

Scout Tafoya: Favourite Films of 2018

[see also 2017]

1. Black Mother — Khalik Allah
2. Personal Problems — Bill Gunn
2. Something Good - Negro Kiss
3. Piu Piu — Naima Ramos-Chapman
4. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
5. Widows — Steve McQueen
6. 24 Frames — Abbas Kiarostami
7. Barbara — Mathieu Amalric
8. High Life — Claire Denis
9. Scarred Hearts — Radu Jude
10. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
10. Dark — Paul Schrader
11. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
11. The Third Murder — Hirokazu Kore-eda
12. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
13. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
14. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
15. Sweet Country — Warwick Thornton
16. The Guardians — Xavier Beauvois
17. Your Face — Tsai Ming-liang
18. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
18. Pass Over — Spike Lee
19. The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
20. Sorry Angel — Christophe Honoré
21. Mosaic — Steven Soderbergh
22. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda — Stephen Nomura Schible
23. Creed II — Steven Caple Jr.
24. All Square — John Hyams
25. The Mule — Clint Eastwood
26. The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
27. The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener
28. Mr. SOUL! — Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
29. Blockers — Kay Cannon
30. Music When the Lights Go Out — Ismael Caneppele
31. Dovlatov — Aleksey German
32. A Family Tour — Ying Liang
33. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
34. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer — various artists
35. Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
36. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
37. Diane — Kent Jones
38. Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
39. Monrovia, Indiana — Frederick Wiseman
40. The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan
41. The Green Fog — Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
42. The Endless — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
43. Annihilation — Alex Garland
44. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
45. The House That Jack Built — Lars von Trier
46. Early Man — Nick Park
47. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
48. Illang: The Wolf Brigade — Kim Jee-Woon
49. The First Purge — Gerard McMurray
50. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
51. Searching for Ingmar Bergman — Margarethe von Trotta
52. Where Is Kyra? — Andrew Dosunmu
52. Nancy — Christina Choe
53. The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
54. Ray Meets Helen — Alan Rudolph
55. Shadow — Zhang Yimou
56. The Predator — Shane Black
57. The Little Drummer Girl — Park Chan-wook
58. The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
59. Dark River — Clio Barnard
60. Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
61. Waiting for the Barbarians — Eugène Green
62. Manhunt — John Woo
63. Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
64. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — Gus Van Sant
65. Incident in a Ghostland — Pascal Laugier
66. Laplace's Witch — Takashi Miike
66. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable — Takashi Miike
67. Unrest — Philippe Grandrieux
68. The 15:17 to Paris — Clint Eastwood
69. Disobedience — Sebastián Lelio
70. Crazy Rich Asians — Jon M. Chu
71. Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
72. Cruise — Robert Siegel
73. Paddington 2 — Paul King
74. Hotel by the River — Hong Sang-soo
75. Between Worlds — Maria Pulera
76. Cold Skin — Xavier Gens
77. A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
78. Transit — Christian Petzold
79. Classical Period — Ted Fendt
80. In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
81. They Shall Not Grow Old — Peter Jackson
82. Las Sandinistas! — Jenny Murray
83. Upgrade — Leigh Whannell
84. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
85. 3 Faces — Jafar Panahi
86. The Captain — Robert Schwentke
87. A Very English Scandal
88. Sol Alegria — Tavinho Teixeira
89. The Glass Note — Mary Helena Clark
90. Outrage Coda — Takeshi Kitano
91. A Gentle Creature — Sergei Loznitsa
92. Halloween — David Gordon Green
92. Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
93. Outlaw King — David Mackenzie
93. Apostle — Gareth Evans
94. Thunder Road — Jim Cummings
95. Mom and Dad — Brian Taylor
96. The Inhabitant — Guillermo Amoedo
96. The Witch in the Window — Andy Mitton
97. The Misandrists — Bruce La Bruce
98. Winchester — Michael and Peter Spierig
99. Marfa Girl 2 — Larry Clark
100. Gemini — Aaron Katz