Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Guardian: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
more...
2018 Movies
Scout Tafoya: Favourite Films of 2018
04 January 2019
Scout Tafoya
:
Favourite Films of 2018
[see also
2021
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2017
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2016
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Black Mother
Khalik Allah
Personal Problems
Bill Gunn
Something Good - Negro Kiss
Piu Piu
Naima Ramos-Chapman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
Widows
Steve McQueen
24 Frames
Abbas Kiarostami
Barbara
Mathieu Amalric
High Life
Claire Denis
Scarred Hearts
Radu Jude
First Reformed
Paul Schrader
Dark
Paul Schrader
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Third Murder
Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel & Ethan Coen
Leave No Trace
Debra Granik
You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay
Sweet Country
Warwick Thornton
The Guardians
Xavier Beauvois
Your Face
Tsai Ming-liang
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
Pass Over
Spike Lee
The Other Side of the Wind
Orson Welles
Sorry Angel
Christophe Honoré
Mosaic
Steven Soderbergh
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Stephen Nomura Schible
Creed II
Steven Caple Jr.
All Square
John Hyams
The Mule
Clint Eastwood
The Image Book
Jean-Luc Godard
The Land of Steady Habits
Nicole Holofcener
Mr. SOUL!
Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
Blockers
Kay Cannon
Music When the Lights Go Out
Ismael Caneppele
Dovlatov
Aleksey German
A Family Tour
Ying Liang
Support the Girls
Andrew Bujalski
Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer
various artists
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross
Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher
Diane
Kent Jones
Bisbee '17
Robert Greene
Monrovia, Indiana
Frederick Wiseman
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Desiree Akhavan
The Green Fog
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
The Endless
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Annihilation
Alex Garland
Private Life
Tamara Jenkins
The House That Jack Built
Lars von Trier
Early Man
Nick Park
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
Illang: The Wolf Brigade
Kim Jee-Woon
The First Purge
Gerard McMurray
Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Margarethe von Trotta
Where Is Kyra?
Andrew Dosunmu
Nancy
Christina Choe
The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci
Ray Meets Helen
Alan Rudolph
Shadow
Zhang Yimou
The Predator
Shane Black
The Little Drummer Girl
Park Chan-wook
The Wild Pear Tree
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Dark River
Clio Barnard
Game Night
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
Waiting for the Barbarians
Eugène Green
Manhunt
John Woo
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Gus Van Sant
Incident in a Ghostland
Pascal Laugier
Laplace's Witch
Takashi Miike
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
Takashi Miike
Unrest
Philippe Grandrieux
The 15:17 to Paris
Clint Eastwood
Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio
Crazy Rich Asians
Jon M. Chu
Unsane
Steven Soderbergh
Cruise
Robert Siegel
Paddington 2
Paul King
Hotel by the River
Hong Sang-soo
Between Worlds
Maria Pulera
Cold Skin
Xavier Gens
A Bread Factory
Patrick Wang
Transit
Christian Petzold
Classical Period
Ted Fendt
In My Room
Ulrich Köhler
They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson
Las Sandinistas!
Jenny Murray
Upgrade
Leigh Whannell
Ash is Purest White
Jia Zhang-ke
3 Faces
Jafar Panahi
The Captain
Robert Schwentke
A Very English Scandal
Sol Alegria
Tavinho Teixeira
The Glass Note
Mary Helena Clark
Outrage Coda
Takeshi Kitano
A Gentle Creature
Sergei Loznitsa
Halloween
David Gordon Green
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Christopher McQuarrie
Outlaw King
David Mackenzie
Apostle
Gareth Evans
Thunder Road
Jim Cummings
Mom and Dad
Brian Taylor
The Inhabitant
Guillermo Amoedo
The Witch in the Window
Andy Mitton
The Misandrists
Bruce La Bruce
Winchester
Michael and Peter Spierig
Marfa Girl 2
Larry Clark
Gemini
Aaron Katz