Year-End Lists

David Hudson: Top Ten Films of 2018, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

Emphatic mentions (alphabetical)

• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Grass
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Green Fog
  Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
• In My Room
  Ulrich Köhler
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• The Wild Pear Tree
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan

1. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
2. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
3. Transit
   Christian Petzold
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
6. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
7. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
8. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
9. An Elephant Sitting Still
   Hu Bo
10. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong