Peter Travers: 20 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- First Man — Damien Chazelle
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- Green Book — Peter Farrelly
- Vice — Adam McKay
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Widows — Steve McQueen
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Bohemian Rhapsody — Bryan Singer
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville