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2018 Movies

Slant: 25 Best Films of 2018

17 December 2018

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2018

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  1. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  2. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  3. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
  4. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
  5. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  6. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
  7. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
  8. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  9. Monrovia, Indiana
    Frederick Wiseman
  10. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
  11. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  12. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  13. Paddington 2
    Paul King
  14. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
  15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
  16. The Green Fog
    Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
  17. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
    Travis Wilkerson
  18. The Day After
    Hong Sang-soo
  19. Golden Exits
    Alex Ross Perry
  20. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  21. Shoah: Four Sisters
    Claude Lanzmann
  22. PROTOTYPE
    Blake Williams
  23. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
  24. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  25. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing

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