Best of 2018

Films:

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti Jr., Rodney Rothman)

2. Sorry To Bother You (Boots Riley) 

3. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker) 

4. The Rider (Chloé Zhao) 

5. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham) 

6. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos) 

7. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay) 

8. Border (Ali Abbasi) 

9. Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley) 

10. The Guilty (Gustav Möller) 

Honorable Mentions:

Leave No Trace (Debra Granik), The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos),  Minding the Gap (Bing Liu), Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski), Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani), The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)

Favorite Scenes:

• Ending One-Take, Long Day’s Journey Into Night

• Murder Rehearsal, Piercing

• “Burning My Hopes and Dreams”, Eighth Grade

• Me Versus Me, Annihilation

• Prison Dance, Paddington 2

TV Episodes:

1. "Teddy Perkins," Atlanta

2. "Will Ferrell Saves This Show," The Chris Gethard Show

3. "Joe Pera Shows You How To Dance," Joe Pera Talks With You

4. "Don't I Know You?," Killing Eve

5. "Austerlitz," Succession

6. "Chapter Five: Do Your Job," Barry

7. "Janet(s)," The Good Place

8. "Items Outside the Shelter But Within Reach," Random Acts of Flyness

9. "All Backed Up," American Vandal

10. "Kintsugi," Kidding

Honorable Mentions:

"INT. SUB," Bojack Horseman, "Chapter 14," Legion, "Andre and Sarah," Forever