A ranking of the 94 movies I saw from 2018.
- Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
- Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
- Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
- Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
- Generation Wealth (Lauren Greenfield)
- Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)
- Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- First Man (Damien Chazelle)
- BlackKklansman (Spike Lee)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
- Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
- Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
- Blaze (Ethan Hawke)
- You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
- The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
- Free Solo (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
- Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen Brothers)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
- Wildlife (Paul Dano)
- The Rider (Chloe Zhao)
- Vice (Adam McKay)
- Widows (Steve McQueen)
- Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
- Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
- They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson)
- Annihilation (Alex Garland)
- A Simple Favor (Paul Feig)
- 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Damsel (David & Nathan Zellner)
- Hereditary (Ari Aster)
- Tully (Jason Reitman)
- American Animals (Bart Layton)
- The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)
- Hal (Amy Scott)
- The Front Runner (Jason Reitman)
- Ben Is Back (Peter Hedges)
- Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)
- Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
- Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
- The Party (Sally Potter)
- Destroyer (Karyn Kusama)
- Overlord (Julius Avery)
- Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
- Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant)
- Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
- Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
- The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
- A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)
- Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Morgan Neville)
- Mandy (Panos Cosmatos)
- Andre the Giant (Jason Hehir)
- Paddington 2 (Paul King)
- Halloween (David Gordon Green)
- Mid90s (Jonah Hill)
- Thunder Road (Jim Cummings)
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
- Deadpool 2 (David Leitch)
- The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery)
- Hold the Dark (Jeremy Saulnier)
- Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
- Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
- Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
- Elvis Presley: The Searcher
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
- The Land of Steady Habits
- Operation Finale
- Prospect (Zeek Earl, Chris Caldwell)
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Game Night
- Calling All Earthlings
- Hotel Artemis
- The Spy Who Dumped Me
- 6 Balloons
- Aquaman
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- A Quiet Place (John Krasinski)
- Pacific Rim: Uprising
- Rampage
- The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- The Christmas Chronicles
- Evil Genius
- The Meg
- The Predator (Shane Black)
- The Cloverfield Paradox
- Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Game Over, Man!
Up Next: Spaceballs (1987), Widows (2018), The Grifters (1990)