Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Chicago Tribune

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

1. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
2. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
4. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
6. Widows
   Steve McQueen
7. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
8. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
9. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
10. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler

Runners-up, 11-30, alphabetical

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Blindspotting
  Carlos López Estrada
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
  Alexandra Dean
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Filmworker
  Tony Zierra
• The Hate U Give
  George Tillman Jr.
• Hereditary
  Ari Aster
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Paddington 2
  Paul King
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
  Stephen Nomura Schible
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville
• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay

Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2018

[see also 2022 • 2019]

1. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
2. Knock Knock
   DJ Koze
3. Double Negative
   Low
4. Daytona
   Pusha T
5. Honey
   Robyn
6. Negro Swan
   Blood Orange
7. Transangelic Exodus
   Ezra Furman
8. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
9. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
10. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
11. Future Me Hates Me
    The Beths
12. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
13. Hive Mind
    The Internet
14. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
15. Elastic Days
    J Mascis
16. 7
    Beach House
17. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
18. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
19. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
20. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
20. MITH
    Lonnie Holley

Noel Murray: 20 Best TV Series of 2018, as published by The Verge

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2017]

• The Good Fight
• Atlanta
• Pose
• Glow
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Homecoming
• Forever
• Howards End
• Summer Camp Island
• The X-Files
• Lodge 49
• Better Call Saul
• The Good Place
• The Kids Are Alright
• Speechless
• Mom
• Billions
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• Legends of Tomorrow
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet

Autostraddle: The Best TV Shows of 2018 with LGBT Women Characters

[see also 2019]

1. Killing Eve
2. The Good Place
3. Glow
4. Pose
5. One Day at a Time
6. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
7. The Haunting of Hill House
8. Jane the Virgin
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. Vida
11. High Maintenance
12. Harlots
13. The Good Fight
15. The Bisexual
16. Black Lightning
17. Steven Universe
18. Dear White People
19. The End of the F***ing World
20. The Handmaid’s Tale
21. Adventure Time
22. Counterpart
23. Forever
24. Everything Sucks!
25. Legends of Tomorrow
26. Sally4Ever
27. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
28. Runaways

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2018

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

1. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
2. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
3. Camila
   Camila Cabello
4. Interstate Gospel
   Pistol Annies
5. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
6. ASTROWORLD
   Travis Scott
7. Daytona
   Pusha T
8. A Star Is Born Soundtrack
   Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
9. Bottle It In
   Kurt Vile
10. Scorpion
    Drake
11. Egypt Station
    Paul McCartney
12. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
13. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
14. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
15. Vibras
    J Balvin
16. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
17. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
18. FM!
    Vince Staples
19. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
20. Future Me Hates Me
    The Beths
21. 7
    Beach House
22. The Tree of Forgiveness
    John Prine
23. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
24. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
25. SR3MM
    Rae Sremmurd
26. Lush
    Snail Mail
27. Room 25
    Noname
28. High As Hope
    Florence + The Machine
29. What a Time to Be Alive
    Superchunk
30. The Bluest Star
    Free Cake For Every Creature
31. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
32. American Utopia
    David Byrne
33. Hell-On
    Neko Case
34. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
35. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
36. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
37. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
38. Desperate Man
    Eric Church
39. Bad Witch
    Nine Inch Nails
40. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
41. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
42. Girl Going Nowhere
    Ashley McBryde
43. Tha Carter V
    Lil Wayne
44. WARM
    Jeff Tweedy
45. Honey
    Robyn
46. The Sciences
    Sleep
47. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
48. Everything Is Love
    The Carters
49. 12 Little Spells
    Esperanza Spalding
50. Ephorize
    cupcakKe

Shelf Awareness: Best Books of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2017]

Fiction

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Convenience Store Woman
  Sayaka Murata
• Everything Under
  Daisy Johnson
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Girls Burn Brighter
  Shobha Rao
• The Mars Room
  Rachel Kushner
• My Ex-Life
  Stephen McCauley
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• Your Duck Is My Duck
  Deborah Eisenberg

Nonfiction

• All You Can Ever Know
  Nicole Chung
• Beautiful Country Burn Again

  Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
  Ben Fountain
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Fly Girls

  How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
  Keith O’Brien
• Heartland

  A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• The Recovering

  Intoxication and Its Aftermath
  Leslie Jamison
• The Tangled Tree

  A Radical New History of Life
  David Quammen
• Tinderbox

  The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
  Robert W. Fieseler
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Poetry of 2018

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

• Evolution
  Eileen Myles
• Milk
  Dorothea Lasky
• Another Way to Play

  Poems 1960-2017
  Michael Lally
• Tom Sawyer
  Joseph Grantham
• The Resignation
  Lonely Christopher
• feeld
  Jos Charles
• Abductions
  Chiwan Choi
• Camp Marmalade
  Wayne Koestenbaum
• Cheap Yellow
  Shy Watson
• Nioque of the Early-Spring
  Francis Ponge
• Wobble
  Rae Armantrout
• Telephone
  Ariana Reines
• When People Die
  Thomas Moore
• The Red Song
  Melisa Machado
• The Known Universe
  Terence Winch
• Positions of the Sun
  Lyn Hejinian

Brian Tallerico: Top Ten Films of 2018, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
3. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
4. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
5. Widows
   Steve McQueen
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
7. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
8. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
9. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
10. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley

Runner-ups

• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Blindspotting
  Carlos López Estrada
• First Man
  Damien Chazelle
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• Hereditary
  Ari Aster
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: Ten Best Films of 2018

Keith Uhlich: Top 10 Films of 2018

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012 • 2011]

Do Something New

1. 24 Frames
   Abbas Kiarostami
1. Ready Player One
   Steven Spielberg

Size Does Matter?

2. The X-Files
3. La Flor
   Mariano Llinás

This Is Existentialism 101

4. The Terror
5. The Green Fog
   Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson

…And This Is Love

6. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
7. Sense8: Episode "Amor Vincit Omnia"
   Lana Wachowski
8. Suspiria
   Luca Guadagnino

Dea(d)r White People

9. Monrovia, Indiana
   Frederick Wiseman
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen

Todd McCarthy: Best Films of 2018, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

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

Honorable Mentions

• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Sisters Brothers
  Jacques Audiard
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• Annihilation
  Alex Garland
• Golden Exits
  Alex Ross Perry
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Green Book
  Peter Farrelly
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Jane Fonda in Five Acts
  Susan Lacy

1. Vice
   Adam McKay
2. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
4. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
5. Free Solo
   Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
6. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
7. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
8. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
9. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
10. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles