Year-End Lists

Ann Patchett: Best Books of 2018, as posted by PBS

• Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine
  Kevin Wilson
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• Early Work
  Andrew Martin
• The Baltimore Book of the Dead
  Marion Winik

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

Carlos Lozada: Best Books of 2018, as posted by PBS

• The Line Becomes a River

  Dispatches from the Border
  Francisco Cantú
• Good and Mad

  The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
  Rebecca Traister
• Post-Truth
  Lee McIntyre
• The List

  A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
  Amy Siskind
• The Lies That Bind

  Rethinking Identity
  Kwame Anthony Appiah

Karina Longworth: Some 2018 Releases I Liked, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2017 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Widows
  Steve McQueen
• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Nancy
  Christina Choe
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• A Simple Favor
  Paul Feig
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Tully
  Jason Reitman
• Borg vs. McEnroe
  Janus Metz
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Mid90s
  Jonah Hill
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles

Vadim Rizov: Top Ten Films of 2018, as submitted to the annual collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2017 • 2012]

1. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
2. Asako I & II
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
3. The Grand Bizarre
   Jodie Mack
4. In My Room
   Ulrich Köhler
5. Maya
   Mia Hansen-Løve
6. Extinction
   Salomé Lamas
7. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
8. Rojo
   Benjamín Naishtat
9. América
   Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside
10. Ada Kaleh
    Helena Wittmann

Federica Foglia: Top Ten Films of 2018, as submitted to the annual collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also 2017]

1. High Life
   Claire Denis
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. Cities of Last Things
   Ho Wi Ding
4. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
5. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
6. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
7. Anthropocene
   Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, and Jennifer Baichwal
8. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
9. Mademoiselle de Joncquières
   Emmanuel Mouret
10. Dogman
    Matteo Garrone

Nictate: Top 11 Films of 2018, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The House That Jack Built
  Lars von Trier
• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019]

1. Age Of
   Oneohtrix Point Never
2. Devotion
   Tirzah
3. Above All Dreams
   Abul Mogard
4. The Dream My Bones Dream
   Eiko Ishibashi
5. NASIR
   Nas
6. Negro Swan
   Blood Orange
7. Heroes
   Retro X
8. Some Rap Songs
   Earl Sweatshirt
9. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
10. Way Through Vulnerability
    Liberez

Notable mentions

• Gave In Rest
  Sarah Davachi
• Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
  Sophie
• Hundreds of Days
  Mary Lattimore
• Kite
  Gigi Masin

Lydia Ogwang: Top 13 Films of 2018, as submitted to the annual collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also 2017]

1. Drift
   Helena Wittmann
2. Fainting Spells
   Sky Hopinka
3. The Nucleus of the Great Union
   The Otolith Group
4. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
5. ALTIPLANO
   Malena Szlam
6. Diamantino
   Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
7. L. Cohen
   James Benning
8. Transit
   Christian Petzold
9. The Image You Missed
   Donal Foreman
10. Personal Problems
    Bill Gunn
11. Monrovia, Indiana
    Frederick Wiseman
12. Caballerango
    Juan Pablo González
13. My First Film [live]
    Zia Anger

Honourable Mentions

• Black Mother
  Khalik Allah
• August at Akiko's
  Christopher Makoto Yogi
• Beychella [Beyoncé live at Coachella]

Philip Concannon: Best Films of 2018

1. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
2. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
3. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
4. An Elephant Sitting Still
   Hu Bo
5. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
6. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
7. The Wild Boys
   Bertrand Mandico
8. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
9. Apostasy
   Daniel Kokotajlo
10. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
11. Monrovia, Indiana
    Frederick Wiseman
12. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
13. Upgrade
    Leigh Whannell
14. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing
15. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
16. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
17. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
18. In Fabric
    Peter Strickland
19. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
20. Too Late to Die Young
    Dominga Sotomayor
21. Blindspotting
    Carlos López Estrada
22. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
23. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
24. The Queen of Fear
    Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia
25. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan