John Beifuss: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
- I Am Not a Witch — Rungano Nyoni
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
- Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- Mr. SOUL! — Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
- Wrestle — Suzannah Herbert
- Free Solo — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
- The Gospel of Eureka — Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
- Upgrade — Leigh Whannell
- Annihilation — Alex Garland
The Second 10 (in alphabetical order)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp — Peyton Reed
- Avengers: Infinity Wars — Anthony and Joe Russo
- Blockers — Kay Cannon
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- A Fantastic Woman — Sebastián Lelio
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — J.A. Bayona
- Lean On Pete — Andrew Haigh
- The Little Stranger — Lenny Abrahamson
- Mirai — Mamoru Hosoda
- The Old Man & the Gun — David Lowery
- Overlord — Julius Avery
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- Ready Player One — Steven Spielberg
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Rodents of Unusual Size — Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
- Rukus — Brett Hanover
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
- Three Identical Strangers — Tim Wardle
- Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
- Vox Lux — Brady Corbet