Ranking Every Movie of 2018 (all 135 of them)

Yesterday, the Manifesto unveiled its list of the 10 best movies of 2018. Today, per annual tradition, we’re expanding that list and ranking every single movie of the year, or at least every single one that we saw. This is a deeply silly exercise, but it’s also a fun one, designed to inspire frivolous debates and indignant arguments, which are of course what the internet does best.

It’s also meant to be something of a service. For each title, in addition to embedding a hyperlink to my full review (where applicable), I’ll include a parenthetical identifying the movie’s director, its Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores (to see whether I conform with or diverge from the critical consensus), and—most usefully—a notification if it’s currently available on a particular streaming service. The idea is that you can continually refer back to this list over the coming years when you’re craving something to watch and you’re too lazy to Google the latest Indiewire poll. You’re welcome.

And remember, because I don’t seek out bad movies, this list isn’t a bell curve; I enjoyed most of the films on it, and I’d recommend watching pretty much everything in the top 100 or so. Movies are good.

Here we go:

1. Thoroughbreds (directed by Cory Finley; 86% Rotten Tomatoes, 75 Metacritic; streaming on Cinemax)
2. On Chesil Beach (Dominic Cooke, 67% RT, 62 MC; streaming on Amazon)
3. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 93% RT, 90 MC)
4. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 95% RT, 82 MC; streaming on Epix)
5. Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 92% RT, 81 MC; streaming on Shudder)
6. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 100% RT, 88 MC; streaming on Amazon)
7. Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 93% RT, 80 MC; streaming on Netflix)
8. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski, 92% RT, 90 MC)
9. Mission: Impossible—Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 97% RT, 86 MC)
10. Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 93% RT, 77 MC)
11. The Escape (Dominic Savage, 77% RT, 75 MC; streaming on Hulu)
12. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 99% RT, 90 MC; streaming on Amazon)
13. Widows (Steve McQueen, 91% RT, 84 MC)
14. The Tale (Jennifer Fox, 99% RT, 90 MC; streaming on HBO)
15. Tag (Jeff Tomsic, 56% RT, 56 MC; streaming on HBO)
16. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 95% RT, 96 MC; streaming on Netflix)
17. First Man (Damien Chazelle, 87% RT, 84 MC)
18. Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 72% RT, 62 MC)
19. Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 93% RT, 83 MC; streaming on Netflix)
20. Tully (Jason Reitman, 86% RT, 75 MC; streaming on HBO)
21. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 90% RT, 82 MC; streaming on HBO)
22. Lizzie (Craig Macneill, 65% RT, 59 MC)
23. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman; 97% RT, 87 MC)
24. Colette (Wash Westmoreland, 87% RT, 74 MC)
25. Hereditary (Ari Aster, 89% RT, 87 MC; streaming on Amazon)
26. Ralph Breaks the Internet (Phil Johnston and Rich Moore; 89% RT, 71 MC)
27. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 97% RT, 88 MC; streaming on Netflix)
28. Annihilation (Alex Garland, 88% RT, 79 MC; streaming on Amazon, Hulu, and Epix)
29. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 94% RT, 87 MC)
30. Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz, 83% RT, 67 MC)
31. Cam (Daniel Goldhaber, 94% RT, 71 MC; streaming on Netflix)
32. Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird, 92% RT, 75 MC)
33. A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 85% RT, 67 MC)
34. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 94% RT, 90 MC; streaming on Hoopla)
35. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 88% RT, 70 MC; streaming on Netflix)
36. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 91% RT, 79 MC; streaming on Netflix)
37. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 93% RT, 80 MC; streaming on Hulu)
38. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 98% RT, 87 MC)
39. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan, 87% RT, 69 MC; streaming on Kanopy and Hoopla)
40. A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, 89% RT, 88 MC)
41. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 93% RT, 85 MC; streaming on Hulu)
42. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 90% RT, 86 MC; streaming on Netflix)
43. The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr., 97% RT, 81 MC)
44. Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard, 75% MC, 60 MC)
45. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 96% RT, 83 MC)
46. Beast (Michael Pearce, 92% RT, 74 MC; streaming on Shudder)
47. Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio, 84% RT, 74 MC; streaming on Amazon)
48. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 93% RT, 85 MC; streaming on Amazon and Kanopy)
49. Paddington 2 (Paul King, 100% RT, 88 MC; streaming on HBO)
50. Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, 70% RT, 62 MC; streaming on Netflix)
51. Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 62% RT, 60 MC)
52. Game Night (John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, 84% RT, 66 MC; streaming on HBO)
53. Ben Is Back (Peter Hedges, 81% RT, 68 MC)
54. Adrift (Baltasar Kormákur, 70% RT, 56 MC)
55. The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 92% RT, 92 MC; streaming on Starz)
56. Aquaman (James Wan, 65% RT, 55 MC)
57. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 91% RT, 74 MC)
58. Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 69% RT, 61 MC; streaming on HBO)
59. Puzzle (Marc Turtletaub, 83% RT, 66 MC)
60. A Private War (Matthew Heineman, 90% RT, 75 MC)
61. Never Goin’ Back (Augustine Frizzell, 75% RT, 62 MC; streaming on Amazon and Kanopy)
62. Creed II (Steven Caple Jr., 84% RT, 66 MC)
63. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh, 90% RT, 80 MC; streaming on Amazon and Kanopy)
64. American Animals (Bart Layton, 88% RT, 68 MC; streaming on Cinemax)
65. Chappaquiddick (John Curran, 81% RT, 67 MC; streaming on Netflix)
66. The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 96% RT, 88 MC; streaming on Showtime)
67. Red Sparrow (Francis Lawrence, 46% RT, 53 MC; streaming on Cinemax)
68. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 99% RT, 93 MC; streaming on Hoopla)
69. The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery, 92% RT, 80 MC)
70. Damsel (David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, 69% RT, 63 MC; streaming on Hulu)
71. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 91% RT, 71 MC)
72. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 72% RT, 64 MC; streaming on HBO)
73. Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 95% RT, 87 MC; streaming on Amazon, Kanopy, and Hoopla)
74. Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, 69% RT, 62 MC; streaming on Amazon)
75. mid90s (Jonah Hill, 77% RT, 66 MC)
76. Set It Up (Claire Scanlon, 91% RT, 62 MC; streaming on Netflix)
77. The Wife (Björn Runge, 85% RT, 77 MC)
78. The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 85% RT, 78 MC)
79. The Front Runner (Jason Reitman, 58% RT, 61 MC)
80. Blockers (Kay Cannon, 83% RT, 69 MC; streaming on HBO)
81. Nancy (Christina Choe, 87% RT, 67 MC; streaming on Amazon, Kanopy, and Hoopla)
82. Marrowbone (Sergio G. Sánchez, 45% RT, 63 RT; streaming on Hulu)
83. Beirut (Brad Anderson, 82% RT, 69 MC; streaming on Amazon)
84. Gemini (Aaron Katz, 88% RT, 71 MC; streaming on Hulu)
85. On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 72% RT, 60 MC)
86. Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, 80% RT, 63 MC; streaming on Amazon)
87. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 89% RT, 84 MC; streaming on Amazon)
88. Destination Wedding (Victor Levin, 48% RT, 46 MC; streaming on Amazon)
89. Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (Christian Papierniak, 56% RT, 51 MC)
90. Hotel Artemis (Drew Pearce, 57% RT, 58 MC; streaming on Hoopla)
91. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 65% RT, 64 MC)
92. Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 85% RT, 68 MC; streaming on Netflix)
93. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (Stefano Sollima, 63% RT, 61 MC; streaming on Starz)
94. Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 61% RT, 49 MC)
95. Hold the Dark (Jeremy Saulnier, 71% RT, 63 MC; streaming on Netflix)
96. The Workshop (Laurent Cantet, 86% RT, 74 MC; streaming on Netflix)
97. Vice (Adam McKay, 66% RT, 61 MC)
98. 22 July (Paul Greengrass, 79% RT, 69 MC; streaming on Netflix)
99. Double Lover (François Ozon, 70% RT, 70 MC)
100. Upgrade (Leigh Whannell, 87% RT, 67 MC; streaming on Cinemax)
101. Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 29% RT, 35 MC)
102. The Little Stranger (Lenny Abrahamson, 65% RT, 67 MC)
103. The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 85% RT, 68 MC; streaming on Hoopla)
104. Apostle (Gareth Evans, 78% RT, 62 MC; streaming on Netflix)
105. The Predator (Shane Black, 32% RT, 48 MC)
106. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 87% RT, 76 MC; streaming on Amazon and Kanopy)
107. White Boy Rick (Yann Demange, 58% RT, 59 MC)
108. Boy Erased (Joel Edgerton, 81% RT, 69 MC)
109. Bumblebee (Travis Knight, 93% RT, 66 MC)
110. Love, Simon (Greg Berlanti, 92% RT, 72 MC; streaming on HBO)
111. The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra, 57% RT, 56 MC; streaming on Amazon, Hulu, and Epix)
112. Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall, 79% RT, 66 MC)
113. Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 79% RT, 69 MC)
114. Dark River (Clio Barnard, 78% RT, 69 MC; streaming on Amazon, Kanopy, and Hoopla)
115. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (J.A. Bayona, 47% RT, 51 MC)
116. The Week Of (Robert Smigel, 24% RT, 41 MC; streaming on Netflix)
117. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 91% RT, 81 MC; streaming on Hoopla and Shudder)
118. Deadpool 2 (David Leitch, 83% RT, 66 MC)
119. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant, 76% RT, 67 MC; streaming on Amazon)
120. RBG (Julie Cohen and Betsy West, 94% RT, 71 MC; streaming on Hulu and Hoopla)
121. Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, 51% RT, 48 MC; streaming on HBO)
122. The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Fede Alvarez, 40% RT, 43 MC)
123. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (David Yates, 37% RT, 52 MC)
124. The Seagull (Michael Mayer, 68% RT, 58 MC; streaming on Starz)
125. Summer 1993 (Carla Simón, 100% RT, 81 MC; streaming on Amazon and Kanopy)
126. We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar, 91% RT, 84 MC; streaming on Netflix)
127. A Wrinkle in Time (Ava DuVernay, 42% RT, 53 MC; streaming on Netflix)
128. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson, 96% RT, 64 MC; streaming on Netflix)
129. The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 69% RT, 58 MC)
130. Mohawk (Ted Geoghegan, 83% RT, 70 MC; streaming on Netflix)
131. Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 88% RT, 75 MC; streaming on Netflix)
132. Where Is Kyra? (Andrew Dosunmu, 81% RT, 72 MC)
133. Western (Valeska Grisebach, 96% RT, 81 MC; streaming on Amazon)
134. Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 96% RT, 89 MC; streaming on Amazon)
135. Fifty Shades Freed (James Foley, 12% RT, 31 MC; streaming on HBO)

Jeremy Beck

Jeremy Beck is the editor-in-chief of MovieManifesto. He watches more movies and television than he probably should.