Year-End Lists

John Beifuss: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Memphis Commercial Appeal

1. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
2. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
5. Hereditary
   Ari Aster
6. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
6. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
7. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
8. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
9. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
9. Mandy
   Panos Cosmatos
10. I Am Not a Witch
    Rungano Nyoni

The Second 10 (in alphabetical order)

1. Black Panther
   Ryan Coogler
2. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
3. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
4. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
5. Isle of Dogs
   Wes Anderson
6. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
7. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
8. Mr. SOUL!
   Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
8. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
   Morgan Neville
9. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
   RaMell Ross
9. Wrestle
   Suzannah Herbert
9. Free Solo
   Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
9. The Gospel of Eureka
   Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
10. Upgrade
    Leigh Whannell
10. Annihilation
    Alex Garland

Also worth seeing

• Ant-Man and the Wasp
  Peyton Reed
• Avengers: Infinity Wars
  Anthony and Joe Russo
• Blockers
  Kay Cannon
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• A Fantastic Woman
  Sebastián Lelio
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  J.A. Bayona
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• The Little Stranger
  Lenny Abrahamson
• Mirai
  Mamoru Hosoda
• The Old Man & the Gun
  David Lowery
• Overlord
  Julius Avery
• Paddington 2
  Paul King
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Ready Player One
  Steven Spielberg
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Rodents of Unusual Size
  Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
• Rukus
  Brett Hanover
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Three Identical Strangers
  Tim Wardle
• Unsane
  Steven Soderbergh
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet