Best of 2018

1. The Favourite                                Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Cold War                                        Pawel Pawlikowski
3. The Other Side of the Wind         Orson Welles
4. 24 Frames                                      Abbas Kiarostami
5. American Animals                        Bart Layton
6. Mandy                                            Panos Cosmatos
7. Shirkers                                         Sandi Tan
8. Shoplifters                                     Hirokazu Kore-eda
9. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs      Joel and Ethan Cohen
10. Birds of Passage                      Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego

Honorable Mention

Les Garcons Sauvage -- Mandico, 

Support the Girls -- Bujalski, Madeline's Madeline -- Decker, 

Happy as Lazzaro --  Rohrwacher, Berlin Babylon -- Tykwer, et al,

"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians" -- Jude,

A Simple Favor -- Feig, Jeanette -- Dumont,

You Were Never Really Here -- Ramsay, Border -- Abbasi, 

Errementari -- Alijo, Sorry to Bother You --  Riley,

The Wolf House -- Leon and Cocina, This Magnificent Cake -- De Swaef & Roels

Movies I Enjoyed

The Little Drummer Girl, Hereditary,

Burning, Miss Stevens, 

The Rider, Game Night, 

Nuestro Tiempo, Grass, 

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far, A Quiet Place,

Outlaw King, The House That Jack Built,
The Image Book, Bergman: A Year in a Life,

Ready Player One, Unsane,

Roma, Annihilation, 

Did You Ever Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, Donbass,
The Mule, 8th Grade, 

Upgrade, The 15:17 to Paris,

Tumbbad, Anon, Vox Lux,

Sinatra in Palm Springs, Bullet Head,

Winter Flies, Paddington 2,

Greta, Can You Ever Forgive Me?,

In Fabric, Mute,
BlackkKlansman, 

Blue Iguana, Green Book

Humor Me,  White Boy Rick

Under The Mendoza Line

Puzzle, Lizzie,

First Reformed, Family, 

 At Eternity's Gate, The More You Ignore Me,

Un couteau de la coeur,

I Think We're Alone Now, Malevolent,
Crazy Rich Asians, Black Panther,
The Death of Stalin, Deadpool 2, 

The Sister Brothers, Leave No Trace,

The House with a Clock in its Walls,

Mary Queen of Scots, Supercon,

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Suspiria,
Damsel, Her Smell, The Spy Who Dumped Me,

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, Balloon,

 Blockers, Blaze,
Mama Mia! Here We Go Again, Benjamin

Cave Videntium

Destroyer