Year-End Lists

Kenneth Turan: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Los Angeles Times

No. 1 Pick

• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik

The Rest, Ordered Alphabetically

• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• Free Solo
  Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
• Incredibles 2
  Brad Bird
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuarón
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Vice
  Adam McKay

Sundance Documentaries

• Bisbee '17
  Robert Greene
• Crime + Punishment
  Stephen Maing
• Dark Money
  Kimberly Reed
• Hal
  Amy Scott
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• Jane Fonda in Five Acts
  Susan Lacy
• King in the Wilderness
  Peter W. Kunhardt
• The Last Race
  Michael Dweck
• On Her Shoulders
  Alexandria Bombach
• The Oslo Diaries
  Mor Loushy & Daniel Sivan
• RBG
  Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• The Sentence
  Rudy Valdez
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• Three Identical Strangers
  Tim Wardle
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville

A Second 10

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• The Front Runner
  Jason Reitman
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• A Private War
  Matthew Heineman
• They Shall Not Grow Old
  Peter Jackson
• 22 July
  Paul Greengrass
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano

Wonderful Films That Still Linger

• Puzzle
  Marc Turtletaub
• Early Man
  Nick Park
• Juliet, Naked
  Jesse Peretz
• Beirut
  Brad Anderson
• The Guilty
  Gustav Möller
• The Land of Steady Habits
  Nicole Holofcener
• Big Fish and Begonia
  Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun
• Mirai
  Mamoru Hosoda
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• The Guardians
  Xavier Beauvois
• American Animals
  Bart Layton
• Hearts Beat Loud
  Brett Haley
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• The Cakemaker
  Ofir Raul Graizer
• I Am Not a Witch
  Rungano Nyoni