Year-End Lists

Scout Tafoya: Favourite Films of 2018

[see also 2021 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Black Mother
   Khalik Allah
2. Personal Problems
   Bill Gunn
2. Something Good - Negro Kiss
3. Piu Piu
   Naima Ramos-Chapman
4. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
5. Widows
   Steve McQueen
6. 24 Frames
   Abbas Kiarostami
7. Barbara
   Mathieu Amalric
8. High Life
   Claire Denis
9. Scarred Hearts
   Radu Jude
10. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
10. Dark
    Paul Schrader
11. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
11. The Third Murder
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
12. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
13. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
14. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
15. Sweet Country
    Warwick Thornton
16. The Guardians
    Xavier Beauvois
17. Your Face
    Tsai Ming-liang
18. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
18. Pass Over
    Spike Lee
19. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
20. Sorry Angel
    Christophe Honoré
21. Mosaic
    Steven Soderbergh
22. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
    Stephen Nomura Schible
23. Creed II
    Steven Caple Jr.
24. All Square
    John Hyams
25. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood
26. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
27. The Land of Steady Habits
    Nicole Holofcener
28. Mr. SOUL!
    Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
29. Blockers
    Kay Cannon
30. Music When the Lights Go Out
    Ismael Caneppele
31. Dovlatov
    Aleksey German
32. A Family Tour
    Ying Liang
33. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
34. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer
    various artists
35. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
36. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
37. Diane
    Kent Jones
38. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
39. Monrovia, Indiana
    Frederick Wiseman
40. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    Desiree Akhavan
41. The Green Fog
    Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
42. The Endless
    Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
43. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
44. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
45. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
46. Early Man
    Nick Park
47. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
48. Illang: The Wolf Brigade
    Kim Jee-Woon
49. The First Purge
    Gerard McMurray
50. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
51. Searching for Ingmar Bergman
    Margarethe von Trotta
52. Where Is Kyra?
    Andrew Dosunmu
52. Nancy
    Christina Choe
53. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci
54. Ray Meets Helen
    Alan Rudolph
55. Shadow
    Zhang Yimou
56. The Predator
    Shane Black
57. The Little Drummer Girl
    Park Chan-wook
58. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
59. Dark River
    Clio Barnard
60. Game Night
    John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
61. Waiting for the Barbarians
    Eugène Green
62. Manhunt
    John Woo
63. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
64. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    Gus Van Sant
65. Incident in a Ghostland
    Pascal Laugier
66. Laplace's Witch
    Takashi Miike
66. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
    Takashi Miike
67. Unrest
    Philippe Grandrieux
68. The 15:17 to Paris
    Clint Eastwood
69. Disobedience
    Sebastián Lelio
70. Crazy Rich Asians
    Jon M. Chu
71. Unsane
    Steven Soderbergh
72. Cruise
    Robert Siegel
73. Paddington 2
    Paul King
74. Hotel by the River
    Hong Sang-soo
75. Between Worlds
    Maria Pulera
76. Cold Skin
    Xavier Gens
77. A Bread Factory
    Patrick Wang
78. Transit
    Christian Petzold
79. Classical Period
    Ted Fendt
80. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
81. They Shall Not Grow Old
    Peter Jackson
82. Las Sandinistas!
    Jenny Murray
83. Upgrade
    Leigh Whannell
84. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
85. 3 Faces
    Jafar Panahi
86. The Captain
    Robert Schwentke
87. A Very English Scandal
88. Sol Alegria
    Tavinho Teixeira
89. The Glass Note
    Mary Helena Clark
90. Outrage Coda
    Takeshi Kitano
91. A Gentle Creature
    Sergei Loznitsa
92. Halloween
    David Gordon Green
92. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
93. Outlaw King
    David Mackenzie
93. Apostle
    Gareth Evans
94. Thunder Road
    Jim Cummings
95. Mom and Dad
    Brian Taylor
96. The Inhabitant
    Guillermo Amoedo
96. The Witch in the Window
    Andy Mitton
97. The Misandrists
    Bruce La Bruce
98. Winchester
    Michael and Peter Spierig
99. Marfa Girl 2
    Larry Clark
100. Gemini
     Aaron Katz