Year-End Lists

Walter Chaw: 50 Best Films of 2018, as published by Film Freak Central in ten groups

1. Annihilation — Alex Garland
1. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
1. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
1. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
1. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
2. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
2. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
2. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
2. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
2. The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
3. Have a Nice Day — Liu Jian
3. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
3. At Eternity’s Gate — Julian Schnabel
4. The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
4. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
4. Blaze — Ethan Hawke
4. Skate Kitchen — Crystal Moselle
4. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
5. Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
5. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
5. Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
5. Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
5. Upgrade — Leigh Whannell
6. Hold the Dark — Jeremy Saulnier
6. The Great Buddha+ — Huang Hsin-yao
6. Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
6. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
6. Suspiria — Luca Guadagnino
7. First Man — Damien Chazelle
7. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
7. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
7. The Devil's Doorway — Aislinn Clarke
7. Damsel — David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
8. Aquaman — James Wan
8. The Ritual — David Bruckner
8. The Sisters Brothers — Jacques Audiard
8. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
8. Blindspotting — Carlos López Estrada
9. The Night Eats the World — Dominique Rocher
9. The House That Jack Built — Lars von Trier
9. Terrified — Demián Rugna
9. Bumblebee — Travis Knight
9. Apostle — Gareth Evans
10. Ismael’s Ghosts — Arnaud Desplechin
10. The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan
10. Halloween — David Gordon Green
10. Thunder Road — Jim Cummings
10. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer — various artists