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2018 Movies

Rolling Stone: David Fear: Top 20 Movies of 2018

21 December 2018

David Fear: Top 20 Movies of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  2. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
  3. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  4. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
  5. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
  6. Amazing Grace
    Sydney Pollack
  7. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  8. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
  9. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
  10. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  11. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  12. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci
  13. Where Is Kyra?
    Andrew Dosunmu
  14. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
  15. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  16. Tyrel
    Sebastián Silva
  17. Set It Up
    Claire Scanlon
  18. Let the Corpses Tan
    Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
  19. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
  20. Thunder Road
    Jim Cummings

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