2018 Ten Best Movies

Brady Jandreau: The Rider (Sony Pictures Classics)

Here’s my list for 2018. I didn’t have a single obvious, slap-in-the-face #1 for the year, so almost any of the top half-dozen here could have been on top.

1. The Rider (Chloe Zhao)
2. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)
5. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
6. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
7. Hereditary (Ari Aster)
8. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
9. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)/Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
10. First Man (Damien Chazelle)

Here’s a link to the full end-of-year article from the Herald, including a Bottom Ten. Here’s the link from the Seattle Weekly, which, weirdly, counts backwards rather than down.

I voted in the National Society of Film Critics awards, and the group ended up going for The Rider as Best Picture, a not-untypical offbeat choice for the NSFC. Here’s their list on their website, plus a link to the list at Variety.