Burning, Cold War top 2018’s best films by Associated Press

Associated Press film writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr name their choices for the best films of 2018. Jake Coyle 1. Burning 2. Private Life 3. First Reformed: Paul Schrader’s late-in-life masterpiece throbs with an existential despair that has hardened into a taut and tormented religious drama. It’s a culmination for Schrader — an anguished bookend to Taxi Driver, which he wrote — about a priest (a never-better Ethan Hawke) in desperate search for grace. 4. Shoplifters 5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 6. Cold War 7. The Rider 8. Paddington 2 9. The Favourite 10. Zama Honourable mentions: You Were Never Really Here, The Hate U Give, Eighth Grade, Black Panther, Minding the Gap, Sorry to Bother You, Roma, Free Solo, Support the Girls, Let the Sunshine In. Lindsey Bahr 1. Cold War 2. Can You Ever Forgive Me? 3. Roma 4. Wildlife 5. BlacKkKlansman 6. A Star Is Born 7. Private Life 8. The Favourite 9. Juliet, Naked 10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Honourable Mentions: First Reformed, Burning, Leave No Trace, If Beale Street Could Talk, A Simple Favour, Minding the Gap.