Year-End Lists

Ben Sachs: Top Movies of 2018, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. L’enfant secret
   Philippe Garrel
2. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
3. Ash is Purest White
   Jia Zhang-ke
3. Bitter Money
   Wang Bing
4. 24 Frames
   Abbas Kiarostami
4. The Arboretum Cycle
   Nathaniel Dorsky
5. Good Manners
   Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas
6. Roma
   Alfonso Cuarón
7. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
   Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8. The Commuter
   Jaume Collet-Serra
8. The Hate U Give
   George Tillman Jr.
9. The Third Murder
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
10. Rainbow: A Private Affair
    Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Runners-up (in order of preference)

• Bisbee '17
  Robert Greene
• Araby
  João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa
• Personal Problems
  Bill Gunn
• Non-Fiction
  Olivier Assayas
• The Woman Who Left
  Lav Diaz
• Diane
  Kent Jones
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Scarred Hearts
  Radu Jude
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• Rodin
  Jacques Doillon
• Good Luck
  Ben Russell
• Claire’s Camera
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
  Gus Van Sant
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont