20 Best Movies Of 2018 (So Far)

By Jack Pooley / July 5, 2018

3. Leave No Trace

Winter's Bone director Debra Granik serves up her first feature film in eight years, and it most certainly lives up to the considerable expectations.

A subtle and quiet yet highly engrossing father-daughter drama, Leave No Trace provides quite the platform for Ben Foster and his young co-star Thomasin McKenzie to deliver two of the year's most disarming performances to date.

It's fair to say that Granik's typically meditative pacing won't be for all tastes, nor the movie's overall subtlety, but she smartly leaves things wide open for viewers to find their own meaning.

Much like Lean on Pete, if you can appreciate a naturalistic drama that doesn't spoonfeed gigantic swells of drama, it's a tremendously affecting experience.