Sight & Sound 2018

1. Roma

Mexico
Alfonso Cuarón

Lists: Film Comment (4, 2018) | New York Times (1 - Dargis / 5 - Scott, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Centerpiece, 2018) | Telluride (2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2018) | Venice (In Competition, 2018)

2. Phantom Thread

USA
Paul Thomas Anderson

Lists: Cinema Scope (5, 2017) | Film Comment (15, 2017) | New York Times (8 - Dargis / 6 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2018)

3. Burning

Beoning
South Korea
Lee Chang-dong

Lists: Cinema Scope (8, 2018) | Film Comment (2, 2018) | New York Times (2 - Dargis, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2018) | New York (Main Slate, 2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2018)

4. Cold War

Zimna wojna
Poland, UK, France
Pawel Pawlikowski

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2018) | New York (Main Slate, 2018) | Telluride (2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2018)

5. First Reformed

USA
Paul Schrader

Lists: Cinema Scope (9, 2017) | Film Comment (3, 2018) | New York Times (7 - Dargis / 3 - Scott, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Special Events, 2017) | Rotterdam (Voices, 2018) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2017) | Venice (In Competition, 2017)

6. Leave No Trace

USA
Debra Granik

Festivals: Sundance (Premieres, 2018)

7. The Favourite

Ireland, UK, USA
Yorgos Lanthimos

Lists: Film Comment (19, 2018) | New York Times (10 - Scott, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Opening Night, 2018) | Telluride (2018) | Venice (In Competition, 2018)

7. You Were Never Really Here

UK, USA, France
Lynne Ramsay

Lists: Film Comment (16, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2018)

9. Happy as Lazzaro

Lazzaro felice
Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany
Alice Rohrwacher

Lists: Cinema Scope (7, 2018) | Film Comment (9, 2018) | New York Times (5 - Dargis / 2 - Scott, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2018) | New York (Main Slate, 2018)

9. Zama

Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal, USA
Lucrecia Martel

Lists: Cinema Scope (3, 2017) | Film Comment (1, 2018) | New York Times (4 - Dargis, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (A History of Shadows, 2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2017) | Venice (Out of Competition, 2017)

11. The Image Book

Le livre d'image
Switzerland, France
Jean-Luc Godard

Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2018) | Film Comment (18, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2018) | New York (Main Slate, 2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2018)

12. If Beale Street Could Talk

USA
Barry Jenkins

Lists: Film Comment (12, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2018)

13. BlacKkKlansman

USA
Spike Lee

Lists: Film Comment (20, 2018) | New York Times (6 - Dargis / 8 - Scott, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2018) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2018)

14. The Other Side of the Wind

USA
Orson Welles

Lists: Cinema Scope (9, 2018) | Film Comment (8, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Special Events, 2018) | Telluride (2018) | Venice (Out of Competition, 2018)

14. Shirkers

USA
Sandi Tan

Festivals: Sundance (World Cinema Documentary Competition, 2018)

14. Shoplifters

Manbiki kazoku
Japan
Hirokazu Kore-eda

Lists: Film Comment (6, 2018) | New York Times (3 - Dargis, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2018) | New York (Main Slate, 2018) | Telluride (2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2018)

17. Sorry to Bother You

USA
Boots Riley

Lists: Film Comment (11, 2018)

Festivals: Sundance (US Dramatic Competition, 2018)

18. Faces Places

Visages villages
France
Agnès Varda, JR

Lists: Film Comment (8, 2017) | New York Times (3 - Dargis / 5 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2017)

18. The Rider

USA
Chloé Zhao

Lists: Film Comment (13, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Voices, 2018) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2018) | Telluride (2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017)

18. Western

Germany, Bulgaria
Valeska Grisebach

Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2017) | Film Comment (5, 2018)

Festivals: Berlin (LOLA at Berlinale, 2018) | Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Voices, 2018) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2017)