David Fear: Top 20 Movies of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Amazing Grace — Sydney Pollack
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- The Old Man & the Gun — David Lowery
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Where Is Kyra? — Andrew Dosunmu
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Tyrel — Sebastián Silva
- Set It Up — Claire Scanlon
- Let the Corpses Tan — Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
- A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
- Thunder Road — Jim Cummings