Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: 10 Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Chicago Tribune

1. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
2. Roma
   Alfonso Cuarón
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
4. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
6. Widows
   Steve McQueen
7. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
8. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
9. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
10. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler

Runners-up, 11-30, alphabetical

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Blindspotting
  Carlos López Estrada
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
  Alexandra Dean
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Filmworker
  Tony Zierra
• The Hate U Give
  George Tillman Jr.
• Hereditary
  Ari Aster
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Paddington 2
  Paul King
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
  Stephen Nomura Schible
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville
• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay

This list contributes to:

• Top 10 Films of 2018 Filmspotting