Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The New York Times

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Honor Roll

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Bodied
  Joseph Kahn
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Destroyer
  Karyn Kusama
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• Golden Exits
  Alex Ross Perry
• The Guardians
  Xavier Beauvois
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• The King
  Eugene Jarecki
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Lizzie
  Craig William Macneill
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• RBG
  Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Shoah: Four Sisters
  Claude Lanzmann
• The Sisters Brothers
  Jacques Audiard
• Skate Kitchen
  Crystal Moselle
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• The Third Murder
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Three Identical Strangers
  Tim Wardle
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
3. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
6. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
7. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
8. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
9. Monrovia, Indiana
   Frederick Wiseman
10. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
    Nathaniel Dorsky