Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Chicago Tribune

[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
2. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
4. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
6. Widows — Steve McQueen
7. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
8. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
9. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
10. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler

Runners-up, 11-30, alphabetical

• 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