Year-End Lists

Allison Keene: Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by Collider

More Noteworthy Shows of the Year

• The Deuce
• Patrick Melrose
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
• The Alienist
• Anne with an E
• The Durrells in Corfu
• Corporate
• A Very English Scandal
• Lodge 49
• Hilda

1. Blue Planet II
2. Legends of Tomorrow
3. Atlanta
4. Killing Eve
5. Barry
6. The Americans
7. The Terror
8. Counterpart
9. The Great British Bake Off
10. Sharp Objects
11. Glow
12. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
13. Escape at Dannemora
14. Mozart in the Jungle
15. Detroiters
16. Sorry for Your Loss
17. Succession
18. Hap and Leonard
19. Better Call Saul
20. Victoria
21. Baskets
22. Narcos: Mexico
23. Howards End
24. Black Lightning
25. Bodyguard

Siddhant Adlakha: 20 Best Films of 2018 Born from the Asian Diaspora, as published by Polygon

• Abu
  Arshad Khan
• Bitter Melon
  H.P. Mendoza
• Bodied
  Joseph Kahn
• Border
  Ali Abbasi
• A Bread Factory
  Patrick Wang
• Crazy Rich Asians
  Jon M. Chu
• Darkland
  Fenar Ahmad
• A Family Tour
  Ying Liang
• For Izzy
  Alex Chu
• The Hungry
  Bornila Chatterjee
• Invisible Hands
  Shraysi Tandon
• Meditation Park
  Mina Shum
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Searching
  Aneesh Chaganty
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• A Touch of Spring
  Xiaodan He
• Toward a Common Tenderness
  Kaori Oda
• What Will People Say
  Iram Haq
• When We Grow Up
  Zorinah Juan

O, The Oprah Magazine: 15 Best Books of 2018

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Asymmetry
   Lisa Halliday
2. An American Marriage
   Tayari Jones
3. Clock Dance
   Anne Tyler
4. How to Love a Jamaican
   Alexia Arthurs
5. The Overstory
   Richard Powers
6. Those Who Knew
   Idra Novey
7. The Feral Detective
   Jonathan Lethem
8. Everything Here Is Beautiful
   Mira T. Lee
9. Lake Success
   Gary Shteyngart
10. Educated
    Tara Westover
11. Pretend I'm Dead
    Jen Beagin
12. Unsheltered
    Barbara Kingsolver
13. There There
    Tommy Orange
14. Heads of the Colored People
    Nafissa Thompson-Spires
15. The Labyrinth of the Spirits
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The 405: Top 50 Albums of 2018

[see also 2017]

1. Daytona
   Pusha T
2. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
   Sophie
3. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
4. Age Of
   Oneohtrix Point Never
5. Room 25
   Noname
6. Konoyo
   Tim Hecker
7. Veteran
   JPEGMAFIA
8. Childqueen
   Kadhja Bonet
9. 2012-2017
   Against All Logic
10. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
11. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
12. Communion
    Park Jiha
13. Orpheus vs. The Sirens
    Hermit and the Recluse
14. Double Negative
    Low
15. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
16. Swimming
    Mac Miller
17. İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir
    Gaye Su Akyol
18. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
19. Fever
    Black Milk
20. Jord
    Mol
21. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
22. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
23. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
24. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
25. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
26. Someone Out There
    Rae Morris
27. Beyondless
    Iceage
28. Working Class Woman
    Marie Davidson
29. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
30. Queen of Golden Dogs
    Vessel
31. How Many Times Have You Driven By
    Hana Vu
32. FM!
    Vince Staples
33. Asobi
    Aseul
34. Devotion
    Tirzah
35. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
36. From When I Wake the Want Is
    Kathryn Joseph
37. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
38. WOMAN - The 9th Album
    BoA
39. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
40. I Live Inside a Burning House
    Body Void
41. Lavender
    Half Waif
42. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
43. qp
    Ichiko Aoba
44. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
45. Premonitions
    Miya Folick
46. Warning
    Sunmi
47. Reese LaFlare
    Reese LaFlare
48. Summer Nights
    Twice
49. At Weddings
    Tomberlin
50. boygenius
    boygenius

David Bianculli: Best TV Shows of 2018, as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Legion
3. The Americans
4. Killing Eve
5. The Good Place
6. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
7. The Handmaid’s Tale
8. Sharp Objects
9. Patrick Melrose
10. Barry

Lawrence Garcia: Top 15 Films of 2018, as published by The A.V. Club

[see also 2020 • 2019]

1. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
2. The House That Jack Built
   Lars von Trier
3. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
4. PROTOTYPE
   Blake Williams
5. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
6. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
7. Unfriended: Dark Web
   Stephen Susco
8. Isle of Dogs
   Wes Anderson
9. Golden Exits
   Alex Ross Perry
10. Maison du bonheur
    Sofia Bohdanowicz
11. Mrs. Hyde
    Serge Bozon
12. Scarred Hearts
    Radu Jude
13. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
15. Notes on an Appearance
    Ricky D'Ambrose

This list contributes to:

• A.V. Club: Best 25 Films of 2018

David Fear: Top 20 Movies of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Hereditary
   Ari Aster
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
5. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
6. Amazing Grace
   Sydney Pollack
7. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
8. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
9. The Old Man & the Gun
   David Lowery
10. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
11. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
12. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci
13. Where Is Kyra?
    Andrew Dosunmu
14. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
15. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
16. Tyrel
    Sebastián Silva
17. Set It Up
    Claire Scanlon
18. Let the Corpses Tan
    Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
19. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
20. Thunder Road
    Jim Cummings

Maura Johnston: Best Albums of 2018, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2023]

• Exorcism
  Jenny Wilson
• Honey
  Robyn
• Ventriloquism
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• Immortelle
  Say Lou Lou
• Daphne & Celeste Save the World
  Daphne & Celeste
• Chris
  Christine and the Queens
• Record
  Tracey Thorn
• Interstate Gospel
  Pistol Annies
• Isolation
  Kali Uchis
• Across the Meridian
  Pram

Meghan O'Rourke: 9 Best Books of Poetry in 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

• Drafts, Fragments, and Poems

  The Complete Poetry
  Joan Murray
• Wade in the Water
  Tracy K. Smith
• The Book of Ephraim
  James Merrill
• Eye Level
  Jenny Xie
• Indecency
  Justin Phillip Reed
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
  Terrance Hayes
• feeld
  Jos Charles
• Be With
  Forrest Gander
• Human Hours
  Catherine Barnett

Katie Rife: Top 15 Films of 2018, as published by The A.V. Club

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Hereditary
   Ari Aster
2. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
3. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
4. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
5. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
6. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
7. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
8. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
9. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
10. Border
    Ali Abbasi
11. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
12. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
13. Widows
    Steve McQueen
14. Revenge
    Coralie Fargeat
15. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik

This list contributes to:

• A.V. Club: Best 25 Films of 2018