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2018 Movies

Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2018

21 December 2018

First Reformed - Paul Schrader

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2017]

  1. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  2. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  3. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  4. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
  6. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
  7. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
  8. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
  9. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
  10. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
  11. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  12. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
  13. Paddington 2
    Paul King
  14. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
  16. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
  17. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  18. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
  19. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  20. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  21. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
  22. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood
  23. Lover for a Day
    Philippe Garrel
  24. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
  25. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
  26. The Day After
    Hong Sang-soo
  27. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
  28. Vox Lux
    Brady Corbet
  29. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
  30. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
  31. High Life
    Claire Denis
  32. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
  33. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
  34. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
  35. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
  36. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
  37. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
  38. The 15:17 to Paris
    Clint Eastwood
  39. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  40. Custody
    Xavier Legrand
  41. Sunset
    László Nemes
  42. Amazing Grace
    Sydney Pollack
  43. Before We Vanish
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  44. Revenge
    Coralie Fargeat
  45. A Paris Education
    Jean-Paul Civeyrac
  46. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
  47. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing
  48. Personal Problems
    Bill Gunn
  49. Widows
    Steve McQueen
  50. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke

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