TSPDT's 50 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2018 (based only on 2018 end-of-year ballots)
1. ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
2. BURNING Lee Chang-dong
3. FIRST REFORMED Paul Schrader
4. THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos
5. COLD WAR Pawel Pawlikowski
6. LEAVE NO TRACE Debra Granik
7. BLACKKKLANSMAN Spike Lee
8. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Barry Jenkins
9. SHOPLIFTERS Hirokazu Koreeda
10. THE RIDER Chloé Zhao
11. YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Lynne Ramsay
12. ZAMA Lucrecia Martel
13. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU Boots Riley
14. PHANTOM THREAD Paul Thomas Anderson
15. A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper
16. EIGHTH GRADE Bo Burnham
17. HEREDITARY Ari Aster
18. WIDOWS Steve McQueen
19. CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Marielle Heller
20. HAPPY AS LAZZARO Alice Rohrwacher
21. BLACK PANTHER Ryan Coogler
22. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND Orson Welles
23. THE IMAGE BOOK Jean-Luc Godard
24. SUPPORT THE GIRLS Andrew Bujalski
25. ANNIHILATION Alex Garland
26. ISLE OF DOGS Wes Anderson
27. PRIVATE LIFE Tamara Jenkins
28. MINDING THE GAP Bing Liu
29. THE DEATH OF STALIN Armando Iannucci
30. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Christopher McQuarrie
31. WESTERN Valeska Grisebach
32. PADDINGTON 2 Paul King
33. WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Morgan Neville
34. SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman
35. FIRST MAN Damien Chazelle
36. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
37. FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin
38. A QUIET PLACE John Krasinski
39. SHIRKERS Sandi Tan
40. MADELINE'S MADELINE Josephine Decker
41. BLINDSPOTTING Carlos López Estrada
42. MANDY Panos Cosmatos
43. ASH IS PUREST WHITE Jia Zhangke
44. LET THE SUNSHINE IN Claire Denis
45. HIGH LIFE Claire Denis
46. TRANSIT Christian Petzold
47. FACES PLACES Agnès Varda & JR
48. WILDLIFE Paul Dano
49. LEAN ON PETE Andrew Haigh
50. THE WILD PEAR TREE Nuri Bilge Ceylan