Todd McCarthy: Best Films of 2018, as published by The Hollywood Reporter
- Vice — Adam McKay
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- Free Solo — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Sisters Brothers — Jacques Audiard
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville
- The Mule — Clint Eastwood
- Annihilation — Alex Garland
- Golden Exits — Alex Ross Perry
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Green Book — Peter Farrelly
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts — Susan Lacy