Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2018 Movies

Sight & Sound Poll: Best Films of 2018

13 December 2018

Sight & Sound Poll: Best Films of 2018 (a poll of 164 critics and curators published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

  1. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
  2. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
  3. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
  4. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
  5. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
  6. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
  7. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
  8. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
  9. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
  10. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
  11. The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
  12. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
  13. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
  14. The Other Side of the Wind — Orson Welles
  15. Shirkers — Sandi Tan
  16. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
  17. Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
  18. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
  19. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
  20. Western — Valeska Grisebach

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