Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: Best Films of 2018

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012]

The first ten in vigorous preferential order

• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• Mandy
  Panos Cosmatos
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Skate Kitchen
  Crystal Moselle
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley

The second twenty in looser preferential order

• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont
• Milford Graves Full Mantis
  Jake Meginsky and Neil Young
• Personal Problems
  Bill Gunn
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Unsane
  Steven Soderbergh
• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Angels Wear White
  Vivian Qu
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• Ismael’s Ghosts
  Arnaud Desplechin
• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• Gemini
  Aaron Katz
• The Endless
  Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman

The next batch in looser still preferential order

• The 15:17 to Paris
  Clint Eastwood
• Happy as Lazzaro
  Alice Rohrwacher
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Ready Player One
  Steven Spielberg
• Double Lover
  François Ozon
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Sollers Point
  Matthew Porterfield
• Monrovia, Indiana
  Frederick Wiseman
• Barbara
  Mathieu Amalric
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• Rendezvous in July
  Jacques Becker
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• The 317th Platoon
  Pierre Schoendoerffer
• PROTOTYPE
  Blake Williams
• Claire’s Camera
  Hong Sang-soo
• Infinite Football
  Corneliu Porumboiu
• Ghostbox Cowboy
  John Maringouin

And so on

• The Young Karl Marx
  Raoul Peck
• Annihilation
  Alex Garland
• Mrs. Hyde
  Serge Bozon
• Rogers Park
  Kyle Henry
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Who We Are Now
  Matthew Newton
• Nancy
  Christina Choe
• The World Before Your Feet
  Jeremy Workman
• A Prayer Before Dawn
  Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
  Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
• Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
  Luke Fowler
• The Cured
  David Freyne