Best Movies of 2018
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Avengers: Infinity WarTen years of setup spent in one film, structured as the villain's story and ending on a loss.Read the review
AndhadhunA pianist pretending to be blind walks into a murder, and Sriram Raghavan milks the premise for twist after deliciously nasty twist.
BlacKkKlansmanSpike Lee plays an absurd true story straight, then springs the trap in the last five minutes.
BurningA few pages of Murakami stretched into the most controlled ambiguity of its decade.
First ManChazelle films the moon landing as a claustrophobic first person account, then opens the frame for one shot that justifies the whole method.
The Ballad of Buster ScruggsSix westerns in a box, two of them among the best things the Coens have shot and two that should have stayed in the drawer.
First ReformedSchrader wrote the book on transcendental style, then waited forty years and finally shot one.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseIt rebuilt animation grammar from scratch and told a coming-of-age story while doing it.
HereditaryA family drama first and a horror film second, and Toni Collette refuses to let you look away from either.
CapernaumZain Al Rafeea's performance is a genuine discovery, but Labaki frames his ordeal with a courtroom device that keeps telling you what to feel.