Year-End Lists

Alison Willmore: 11 Best Movies Of 2018, as published by BuzzFeed

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

1. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
2. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
3. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
4. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
5. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
6. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
7. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
8. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
10. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
11. Hereditary
    Ari Aster

Girish Shambu: Favorite Films of 2018, as posted to Twitter, limited to US releases

[see also 2021 • 2017]

• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Milla
  Valérie Massadian
• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller

John Powers: 2018's 12 Best Movies, as published by Vogue

[see also 2017 • 2015]

1. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
3. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
7. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
8. Lean On Pete
   Andrew Haigh
9. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
10. Blindspotting
    Carlos López Estrada
11. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
12. Paddington 2
    Paul King

Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order)

• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• Crazy Rich Asians
  Jon M. Chu
• First Man
  Damien Chazelle
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Vice
  Adam McKay
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet

Flood Magazine: Best Albums of 2018

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

1. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
2. 7
   Beach House
3. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
4. In a Poem Unlimited
   U.S. Girls
5. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
6. Sparkle Hard
   Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
7. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
8. Redemption
   Jay Rock
9. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
10. Daytona
    Pusha T
11. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
12. FM!
    Vince Staples
13. boygenius
    boygenius
14. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
15. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
16. Double Negative
    Low
17. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
18. No Dogs Allowed
    Sidney Gish
19. Forth Wanderers
    Forth Wanderers
20. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
21. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
22. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
23. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
24. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
25. In the Lover's Corner
    The Love-Birds

Film Comment: Best Films of 2018, a poll of the magazine's contributors and editors

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

1. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
2. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
5. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
6. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
7. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
8. The Other Side of the Wind
   Orson Welles
9. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
10. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
11. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
12. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
13. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
16. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
17. Monrovia, Indiana
    Frederick Wiseman
18. Personal Problems
    Bill Gunn
19. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
20. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee

Kenneth Turan: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2015 • 2012]

No. 1 Pick

• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik

The Rest, Ordered Alphabetically

• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• Free Solo
  Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
• Incredibles 2
  Brad Bird
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Vice
  Adam McKay

Sundance Documentaries

• Bisbee '17
  Robert Greene
• Crime + Punishment
  Stephen Maing
• Dark Money
  Kimberly Reed
• Hal
  Amy Scott
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• Jane Fonda in Five Acts
  Susan Lacy
• King in the Wilderness
  Peter W. Kunhardt
• The Last Race
  Michael Dweck
• On Her Shoulders
  Alexandria Bombach
• The Oslo Diaries
  Mor Loushy & Daniel Sivan
• RBG
  Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• The Sentence
  Rudy Valdez
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• Three Identical Strangers
  Tim Wardle
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville

A Second 10

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• The Front Runner
  Jason Reitman
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• A Private War
  Matthew Heineman
• They Shall Not Grow Old
  Peter Jackson
• 22 July
  Paul Greengrass
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano

Wonderful Films That Still Linger

• Puzzle
  Marc Turtletaub
• Early Man
  Nick Park
• Juliet, Naked
  Jesse Peretz
• Beirut
  Brad Anderson
• The Guilty
  Gustav Möller
• The Land of Steady Habits
  Nicole Holofcener
• Big Fish and Begonia
  Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun
• Mirai
  Mamoru Hosoda
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• The Guardians
  Xavier Beauvois
• American Animals
  Bart Layton
• Hearts Beat Loud
  Brett Haley
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• The Cakemaker
  Ofir Raul Graizer
• I Am Not a Witch
  Rungano Nyoni

Chicago Review of Books: 10 Best Poetry Books of 2018

[see also 2017 • 2016]

• The Carrying
  Ada Limón
• Perennial
  Kelly Forsythe
• Citizen Illegal
  José Olivarez
• Rodeo in Reverse
  Lindsey Alexander
• House of McQueen
  Valerie Wallace
• Ghost Of
  Diana Khoi Nguyen
• Monument

  Poems New and Selected
  Natasha Trethewey
• Black Queer Hoe
  Britteney Black Rose Kapri
• If They Come for Us
  Fatimah Asghar
• A Cruelty Special to Our Species
  Emily Jungmin Yoon

Matt Zoller Seitz: Top Ten Films of 2018, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

1. A Bread Factory
   Patrick Wang
2. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
3. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
4. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
5. Shoah: Four Sisters
   Claude Lanzmann
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
7. Hereditary
   Ari Aster
8. Searching
   Aneesh Chaganty
9. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
10. Bodied
    Joseph Kahn

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: Ten Best Films of 2018

Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2018, as published by Slate, in alphabetical order by artist

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

• Invasion of Privacy
  Cardi B
• Hell-On
  Neko Case
• Historian
  Lucy Dacus
• boygenius
  boygenius
• Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
  Jeremy Dutcher
• Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
  Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
• Girl Going Nowhere
  Ashley McBryde
• Now Only
  Mount Eerie
• Ventriloquism
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• In Another Life
  Sandro Perri
• Honey
  Robyn
• Your Queen Is a Reptile
  Sons of Kemet
• What a Time to Be Alive
  Superchunk
• Record
  Tracey Thorn
• A Laughing Death in Meatspace
  Tropical Fuck Storm

Uproxx: Best TV Shows of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020]

1. Atlanta
2. The Americans
3. Killing Eve
4. Glow
5. Big Mouth
6. BoJack Horseman
7. Better Call Saul
8. The Terror
9. The Good Place
10. Legends of Tomorrow
11. The Good Fight
12. Barry
13. Succession
14. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
15. Detroiters