Paste Magazine: 50 Best Movies of 2018
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Annihilation — Alex Garland
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Widows — Steve McQueen
- Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Lean On Pete — Andrew Haigh
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
- Incredibles 2 — Brad Bird
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- Avengers: Infinity Wars — Anthony and Joe Russo
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
- Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
- Bodied — Joseph Kahn
- Apostle — Gareth Evans
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- First Man — Damien Chazelle
- Suspiria — Luca Guadagnino
- Blindspotting — Carlos López Estrada
- Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley
- A Quiet Place — John Krasinski
- Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
- Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
- The Night Comes for Us — Timo Tjahjanto
- Thunder Road — Jim Cummings
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- Shirkers — Sandi Tan
- Crazy Rich Asians — Jon M. Chu
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan