Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
3. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
6. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
7. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
8. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
9. Monrovia, Indiana
   Frederick Wiseman
10. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
    Nathaniel Dorsky

Honor Roll

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Bodied
  Joseph Kahn
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Destroyer
  Karyn Kusama
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• Golden Exits
  Alex Ross Perry
• The Guardians
  Xavier Beauvois
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• The King
  Eugene Jarecki
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Lizzie
  Craig William Macneill
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• RBG
  Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Shoah: Four Sisters
  Claude Lanzmann
• The Sisters Brothers
  Jacques Audiard
• Skate Kitchen
  Crystal Moselle
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• The Third Murder
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Three Identical Strangers
  Tim Wardle
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach

Matthew Jacobs: 20 Best Movies Of 2018, as published by HuffPost

[see also 2020 • 2017]

1. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
3. Widows
   Steve McQueen
4. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
5. Suspiria
   Luca Guadagnino
6. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
7. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
8. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
9. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
10. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
11. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
12. Paddington 2
    Paul King
13. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
14. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
16. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
17. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
18. Thoroughbreds
    Cory Finley
19. Skate Kitchen
    Crystal Moselle
20. A Simple Favor
    Paul Feig

Richard Lawson: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
4. Free Solo
   Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
5. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
6. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
8. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
9. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
10. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    Ol Parker

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Wild Boys
   Bertrand Mandico
2. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
   Bruno Dumont
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
5. Paul Sanchez is Back!
   Patricia Mazuy
6. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
7. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
8. The House That Jack Built
   Lars von Trier
9. Leto
   Kirill Serebrennikov
10. Treasure Island
    Guillaume Brac

David Edelstein: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
5. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
6. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
   Morgan Neville
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
8. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
9. Fahrenheit 11/9
   Michael Moore
10. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik

This year’s installment of David Ehrlich’s always enjoyable video countdown: 25 Best Films of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
2. Paddington 2
   Paul King
3. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
4. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
5. The Tale
   Jennifer Fox
6. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
8. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
9. Wildlife
   Paul Dano
10. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
11. Widows
    Steve McQueen
12. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
13. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
14. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
16. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
17. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
18. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
19. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
    Stephen Nomura Schible
20. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
21. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
22. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
23. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
24. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
25. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper

Murielle Joudet: Top 10 Films of 2018, as published by Les Inrockuptibles in no order

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

• Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
  Abdellatif Kechiche
• The House That Jack Built
  Lars von Trier
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Thunder Road
  Jim Cummings
• First Man
  Damien Chazelle
• A Paris Education
  Jean-Paul Civeyrac
• Mrs. Hyde
  Serge Bozon
• Leo McCarey Retrospective

This list contributes to:

• Les Inrocks: Top 10 Films of 2018

Marilou Duponchel: Top 10 Films of 2018, as published by Les Inrockuptibles

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Sorry Angel
   Christophe Honoré
2. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
   Abdellatif Kechiche
3. Amanda
   Mikhaël Hers
4. The Trouble with You
   Pierre Salvadori
5. A Paris Education
   Jean-Paul Civeyrac
6. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
7. Sauvage / Wild
   Camille Vidal-Naquet
8. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
9. Treasure Island
   Guillaume Brac
10. Leto
    Kirill Serebrennikov

This list contributes to:

• Les Inrocks: Top 10 Films of 2018

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2018, as published by Artforum

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

1. Dead Souls
   Wang Bing
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. A Man Walks in the City
   Marcello Pagliero
4. Thomas Bayrle Exhibit, New Museum, New York
5. The Manet and Ravel Sequences from La Flor
   Mariano Llinás
6. Elegant Beast
   Yûzô Kawashima
7. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
8. The Load
   Ognjen Glavonic
9. Ayka
   Sergei Dvortsevoy
10. The Black Book
    Valeria Sarmiento

Melissa Anderson: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Artforum

[see also 2019 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

1. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
2. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
   Rainer Werner Fassbinder
3. The Misandrists
   Bruce La Bruce
4. Personal Problems
   Bill Gunn
5. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
5. High Life
   Claire Denis
6. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
   RaMell Ross
7. Nico, 1988
   Susanna Nicchiarelli
8. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
9. “From the Collection of Pearl Bowser” Exhibit at Light Industry, New York
10. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt