Best 2018 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2018 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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1 / 20

#20. If Beale Street Could Talk

- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 54,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Barry Jenkins
- Actors: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $14,915,773

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2 / 20

#19. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Marielle Heller
- Actors: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $8,803,865

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3 / 20

#18. Eighth Grade

- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 85,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Bo Burnham
- Actors: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $13,539,709

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4 / 20

#17. BlacKkKlansman

- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 305,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Spike Lee
- Actors: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier
- Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $49,275,340

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5 / 20

#16. Leave No Trace

- Stacker score: 91.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 69,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Debra Granik
- Actors: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $6,046,104

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6 / 20

#15. Birds of Passage

- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
- Actors: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $507,259

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7 / 20

#14. Isle of Dogs

- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 204,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Actors: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $32,015,231

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8 / 20

#13. Hereditary

- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 430,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Ari Aster
- Actors: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $44,069,456

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9 / 20

#12. Black Panther

- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 887,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Ryan Coogler
- Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
- Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $700,426,566

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10 / 20

#11. The Tale

- Stacker score: 93.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Jennifer Fox
- Actors: Laura Dern, Jason Ritter, Common
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
- Box office: N/A

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11 / 20

#10. Free Solo

- Stacker score: 94.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 83,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- Actors: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $17,541,090

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12 / 20

#9. Mission: Impossible - Fallout

- Stacker score: 94.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 408,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Christopher McQuarrie
- Actors: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames
- Runtime: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $220,159,104

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13 / 20

#8. A Star Is Born

- Stacker score: 94.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 440,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Bradley Cooper
- Actors: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
- Runtime: 2 hours 16 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $215,333,122

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14 / 20

#7. Burning

- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 83,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Lee Chang-dong
- Actors: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo
- Runtime: 2 hours 28 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $718,991

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15 / 20

#6. The Favourite

- Stacker score: 96.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 250,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Actors: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $34,366,783

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16 / 20

#5. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Morgan Neville
- Actors: Fred Rogers, Margaret Whitmer, Tom Junod
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $22,835,787

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17 / 20

#4. Minding the Gap

- Stacker score: 97.7
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Bing Liu
- Actors: Kent Abernathy, Mengyue Bolen, Nina Bowgren
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $11,998

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18 / 20

#3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.4 (votes: 748,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
- Actors: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $190,241,310

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19 / 20

#2. Roma

- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 175,000)
- Metascore: 96
- Director: Alfonso Cuarón
- Actors: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
- Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

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20 / 20

#1. They Shall Not Grow Old

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 40,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Peter Jackson
- Actors: Thomas Adlam, William Argent, John Ashby
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $17,956,913