Year-End Lists

Nick Schager: 25 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Esquire

1. Mandy
   Panos Cosmatos
2. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
3. Love After Love
   Russell Harbaugh
4. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
5. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
6. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
7. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
8. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
9. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
10. Thunder Road
    Jim Cummings
11. A Private War
    Matthew Heineman
12. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
13. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
15. Filmworker
    Tony Zierra
16. Paddington 2
    Paul King
17. The Endless
    Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
18. A Prayer Before Dawn
    Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
19. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
20. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
21. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
22. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
23. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
24. I Am Not a Witch
    Rungano Nyoni
25. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood

Honorable Mention

• Dead Souls
  Wang Bing
• The Sisters Brothers
  Jacques Audiard
• Hold the Dark
  Jeremy Saulnier
• November
  Rainer Sarnet
• Revenge
  Coralie Fargeat
• Terrified
  Demián Rugna
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Sweet Country
  Warwick Thornton
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller