Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Top US films 2018

  • A still from the film Roma.

    Tell us: what was your favourite film of 2018?

  • Roma by Alfonso Cuarón.

    The 50 best films of 2018: No 1 – Roma

  • Leave No Trace (2018) film still

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 2 – Leave No Trace

    With this superlative drama about a military veteran and his daughter’s guerilla existence in a national park, we were reminded of Debra Granik’s greatness
  • Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), the child at the centre of Loveless.

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 3 – Loveless

    Andrey Zvyagintsev’s stark drama about the dire fallout to a toxic marriage was a loud dissenting cry from within Russia
  • Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 4 – Eighth Grade

    YouTuber turned comedian Bo Burnham makes his directorial debut with a piercingly honest study of teenage anxiety in the social media era
  • Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn in Private Life.

    The 50 best films of 2018: No 5 – Private Life

    Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti were excellent as a sympathetic New York couple struggling to have a baby in Tamara Jenkins’s intensely personal drama
  • This image released by Disney shows a scene from Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther.” As Hollywood’s awards season properly gets under way, “Black Panther” is poised to be the first comic book film to be nominated for best picture. (Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)

    The 50 best films of 2018: No 6 – Black Panther

    Marvel broke new ground with Ryan Coogler’s exhilarating introduction to Wakanda, bringing social conscience and diversity to the increasingly tired superhero genre
  • Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman as Lady Sarah and Queen Anne in The Favourite.

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 7 – The Favourite

    Yorgos Lanthimos’s nutty slab of period fruitcake, about a rivalry in the court of a gout-ridden Queen Anne, is deservedly becoming an Oscars frontrunner
  • Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 8 – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

    Melissa McCarthy reached new career heights with an awards-worthy performance as hard-drinking literary forger Lee Israel in one of the year’s more surprising biopics
  • Cold War (2018) Curzon Artifical Eye Press publicity film still

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 9 – Cold War

    A couple’s passionate relationship mirrors postwar Poland’s political turmoil in Paweł Pawlikowski’s romantic epic
  • Grief … Viola Davis and Liam Neeson in Widows.

    The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 10 – Widows

    Steve McQueen’s heist drama is starry, sleek and majestically composed, with an emotional depth that sets it apart
  • Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

    The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: the full list

    A heartfelt Mexican drama leads our critics’ pick of the top films released in America this year – adding to tales about off-grid survival, toxic relationships, confused schoolkids and game-changing superheroes
  翻译: