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2018 Movies

Little White Lies: 30 Best Films of 2018

20 December 2018

Zama - Lucrecia Martel

Little White Lies: 30 Best Films of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

  1. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  2. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  3. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
  4. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  5. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
  6. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  7. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  8. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
  9. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  10. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    Desiree Akhavan
  11. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
  12. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
  13. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  14. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
  15. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
  16. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
  17. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  18. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
  19. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
  20. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  21. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
  22. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
  23. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
  24. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
  25. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
  26. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
  27. Widows
    Steve McQueen
  28. Have a Nice Day
    Liu Jian
  29. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
  30. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan

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