Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2018 (as voted by 232 critics from 32 countries)

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuarón
2. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
3. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
4. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
6. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
7. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
8. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
9. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
10. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
11. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
12. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
13. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
14. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
15. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
16. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
17. Paddington 2
    Paul King
18. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
19. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
20. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
21. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
22. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
23. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
24. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
25. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
26. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
27. Widows
    Steve McQueen
28. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci
29. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
30. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
31. Green Book
    Peter Farrelly
32. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
33. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
34. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
35. Border
    Ali Abbasi
36. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
37. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
38. Lean On Pete
    Andrew Haigh
39. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
    Travis Wilkerson
40. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
41. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
42. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
43. Birds of Passage
    Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
44. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
45. A Quiet Place
    John Krasinski
46. I Am Not a Witch
    Rungano Nyoni
47. The Sisters Brothers
    Jacques Audiard
48. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
49. Wildlife
    Paul Dano
50. At Eternity’s Gate
    Julian Schnabel