The Ringer: Best Movies of 2018, composed by Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman
[see also 2019]
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
- Annihilation — Alex Garland
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
- First Man — Damien Chazelle
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- The Old Man & the Gun — David Lowery
- Game Night — John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
- Mid90s — Jonah Hill
- Widows — Steve McQueen
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
- Wildlife — Paul Dano
- A Quiet Place — John Krasinski
- The Price of Everything — Nathaniel Kahn
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Vice — Adam McKay
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
- Infinite Football — Corneliu Porumboiu
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee