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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)

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  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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