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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 Cuarón
  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
  21. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
  22. La Flor
    Mariano Llinás
  23. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
  24. High Life
    Claire Denis
  25. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson
  26. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
  27. Transit
    Christian Petzold
  28. Ash Is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
  29. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
  30. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
  31. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
  32. Ray & Liz
    Richard Billingham
  33. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
  34. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
  35. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  36. Apostasy
    Daniel Kokotajlo
  37. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
  38. Killing Eve
  39. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
  40. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    Desiree Akhavan
  41. Widows
    Steve McQueen

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