Michael Phillips: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Chicago Tribune
[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- Widows — Steve McQueen
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- At Eternity’s Gate — Julian Schnabel
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- Blindspotting — Carlos López Estrada
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Alexandra Dean
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Filmworker — Tony Zierra
- The Hate U Give — George Tillman Jr.
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Lean On Pete — Andrew Haigh
- Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda — Stephen Nomura Schible
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- Wildlife — Paul Dano
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay