Kenneth Turan: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Los Angeles Times
[see also 2019, 2017, 2015, 2012]
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
No. 1 Pick
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- Free Solo — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
- Incredibles 2 — Brad Bird
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
- Vice — Adam McKay
The Rest, Ordered Alphabetically
- Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
- Crime + Punishment — Stephen Maing
- Dark Money — Kimberly Reed
- Hal — Amy Scott
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts — Susan Lacy
- King in the Wilderness — Peter W. Kunhardt
- The Last Race — Michael Dweck
- On Her Shoulders — Alexandria Bombach
- The Oslo Diaries — Mor Loushy & Daniel Sivan
- RBG — Betsy West and Julie Cohen
- The Sentence — Rudy Valdez
- Shirkers — Sandi Tan
- Three Identical Strangers — Tim Wardle
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
Sundance Documentaries
- At Eternity’s Gate — Julian Schnabel
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- The Front Runner — Jason Reitman
- The Mule — Clint Eastwood
- A Private War — Matthew Heineman
- They Shall Not Grow Old — Peter Jackson
- 22 July — Paul Greengrass
- Wildlife — Paul Dano
A Second 10
- Puzzle — Marc Turtletaub
- Early Man — Nick Park
- Juliet, Naked — Jesse Peretz
- Beirut — Brad Anderson
- The Guilty — Gustav Möller
- The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener
- Big Fish and Begonia — Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun
- Mirai — Mamoru Hosoda
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- The Guardians — Xavier Beauvois
- American Animals — Bart Layton
- Hearts Beat Loud — Brett Haley
- Custody — Xavier Legrand
- The Cakemaker — Ofir Raul Graizer
- I Am Not a Witch — Rungano Nyoni