Year-End Lists

Sam Wigley: Best Films of 2018, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, listed alphabetically

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• The Wild Pear Tree
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• The Wolf House
  Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña

Leaving Off

• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• The Wild Boys
  Bertrand Mandico
• The Green Fog
  Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The 15:17 to Paris
  Clint Eastwood

Tempted to Include

• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• The Kindergarten Teacher
  Sara Colangelo