Year-End Lists

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2018 Movies

Rolling Stone: Peter Travers: 20 Best Movies of 2018

10 December 2018

Peter Travers: 20 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

  1. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  2. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
  3. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
  4. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  5. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
  6. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  7. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
  8. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  9. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
  10. Green Book
    Peter Farrelly
  11. Vice
    Adam McKay
  12. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  13. Widows
    Steve McQueen
  14. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
  15. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  16. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
  17. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
  18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  19. Bohemian Rhapsody
    Bryan Singer
  20. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
    Morgan Neville

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