2018 Top Ten List

  • La flor—Part 1 (Mariano Llinás)
  • Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  • In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
  • Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
  • Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
  • The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
  • The Last Race (Michael Dweck)
  • Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
  • Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
  • Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler)

    • Additional 2018 Films By Rating

  • Sunset (Nemes László)
  • Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
  • Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
  • Blaze (Ethan Hawke)
  • Shadow (Zhang Yimou)
  • La flor—Part 3 (Mariano Llinás)
  • Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
  • Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
  • They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson)
  • The Wolf House (Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña)
  • Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro)
  • Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
  • Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
  • Hotel by the River (Hong Sangsoo)
  • The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • Seder-Masochism (Nina Paley)
  • Beirut (Brad Anderson)
  • Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • Sadie (Megan Griffiths)
  • BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
  • Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle)
  • Gloria Bell (Sebastián Lelio)
  • Amateurs (Gabriela Pichler)
  • Anna's War (Aleksey Fedorchenko)
  • Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
  • American Dharma (Errol Morris)
  • Annihilation (Alex Garland)
  • Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (Steve Loveridge)
  • In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
  • Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
  • Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré)
  • The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
  • 306 Hollywood (Elan & Jonathan Bogarín)
  • The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
  • The Factory (Yuri Bykov)
  • Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
  • Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo Ping)
  • Mission: Impossible—Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
  • Arctic (Joe Penna)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman)
  • Peterloo (Mike Leigh)
  • Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
  • Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  • Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat)
  • Avengers | Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  • Overlord (Julius Avery)
  • Bisbee '17 (Robert Greene)
  • A Quiet Place (John Krasinski)
  • Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
  • Loro (Paolo Sorrentino)
  • All Is True (Kenneth Branagh)
  • Freaks (Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky)
  • Galveston (Mélanie Laurent)
  • Ant-Man and The Wasp (Peyton Reed)
  • Dogman (Matteo Garrone)
  • Hereditary (Ari Aster)
  • Piercing (Nicolas Pesce)
  • Greta (Neil Jordan)
  • The Bleeding Edge (Kirby Dick)
  • La flor—Part 2 (Mariano Llanás)
  • The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  • Keep an Eye Out (Quentin Dupieux)
  • Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
  • Diane (Kent Jones)
  • Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
  • Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
  • Hidden Man (Jiang Wen)
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
  • Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke)
  • American Animals (Bart Layton)
  • Wildlife (Paul Dano)
  • 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
  • Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Asher (Michael Caton-Jones)
  • The Seagull (Michael Mayer)
  • JT LeRoy (Justin Kelly)
  • Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa)
  • Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
  • Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant)
  • Transit (Christian Petzold)
  • Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley)
  • The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (Henry Dunham)
  • Ayka (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
  • Widows (Steve McQueen)
  • Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
  • A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
  • Tea With the Dames (Roger Michell)
  • The Fall of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)
  • Pass Over (Spike Lee)
  • White Boy Rick (Yann Demange)
  • A Private War (Matthew Heineman)
  • The Prayer (Cédric Kahn)
  • A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
  • Halloween (David Gordon Green)
  • Tully (Jason Reitman)
  • The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery)
  • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam)
  • Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)
  • Shock Waves—Diary of My Mind (Ursula Meier)
  • By the Grace of God (François Ozon)
  • The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (Robert D. Krzykowski)
  • The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
  • Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
  • Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
  • The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  • Thunder Road (Jim Cummings)
  • A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
  • Climax (Gaspar Noé)
  • Yomeddine (Abu Bakr Shawky)
  • Searching for Ingmar Bergman (Margarethe von Trotta)
  • Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson)
  • Bad Samaritan (Dean Devlin)
  • Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird)
  • Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov)
  • A Million Little Pieces (Sam Taylor-Johnson)
  • The Front Runner (Jason Reitman)
  • Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras)
  • Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra)
  • Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
  • Pope Francis—A Man of His Word (Wim Wenders)
  • The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa)
  • At War (Stéphane Brizé)
  • Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson)
  • Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz)
  • Trial by Fire (Edward Zwick)
  • The Command (Thomas Vinterberg)
  • Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)
  • Mandy (Panos Cosmatos)
  • La flor—Part 4 (Mariano Llinás)
  • Mary Magdalene (Garth Davis)
  • Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & André Singer)
  • First Man (Damien Chazelle)
  • High Life (Claire Denis)
  • Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
  • An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
  • Operation Finale (Chris Weitz)
  • Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
  • Victory Day (Sergei Loznitsa)
  • Relaxer (Joel Potrykus)
  • At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel)
  • Paul, Apostle of Christ (Andrew Hyatt)
  • Vita & Virginia (Chanya Button)
  • Graves Without a Name (Rithy Panh)
  • Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
  • The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinelli)
  • Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Retrospekt (Esther Rots)
  • The Happy Prince (Rupert Everett)
  • Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
  • Donnybrook (Tim Sutton)
  • The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan)
  • The Outsider (Martin Zandvliet)
  • Grass (Hong Sangsoo)
  • Ophelia (Claire McCarthy)
  • Clara's Ghost (Bridey Elliott)
  • Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  • Gotti (Kevin Connolly)
  • Human, Space, Time and Human (Kim Ki-duk)