Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2018 Movies

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2018

14 March 2019

An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2018

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
  2. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
  3. La Flor
    Mariano Llinás
  4. Transit
    Christian Petzold
  5. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
    Roberto Minervini
  6. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
  7. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
  8. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  9. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
  10. High Life
    Claire Denis

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