Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Movies of 2018

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1. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
2. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
4. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
5. Black Panther
   Ryan Coogler
6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
7. Hereditary
   Ari Aster
8. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
9. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
10. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
11. Widows
    Steve McQueen
12. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
13. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
14. Lean On Pete
    Andrew Haigh
15. Paddington 2
    Paul King
16. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
17. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
19. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
20. Incredibles 2
    Brad Bird
21. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
22. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci
23. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
24. Avengers: Infinity Wars
    Anthony and Joe Russo
25. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
26. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
27. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
28. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
29. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
30. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
31. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
32. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
    Morgan Neville
33. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
34. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
35. Bodied
    Joseph Kahn
36. Apostle
    Gareth Evans
37. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
38. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
39. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
40. Blindspotting
    Carlos López Estrada
41. Thoroughbreds
    Cory Finley
42. A Quiet Place
    John Krasinski
43. Game Night
    John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
44. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
45. The Night Comes for Us
    Timo Tjahjanto
46. Thunder Road
    Jim Cummings
47. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
48. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
49. Crazy Rich Asians
    Jon M. Chu
50. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    Desiree Akhavan