Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Sight & Sounds Top 20 Films of the Year

This list is complied by top tens submitted by film critics from around the globe, hence films from 2017 feature in the list as some critics would not have seem them until this year. And sadly with the reporting, for the first time ever Sight & Sound have combined two months issues into one (Jan & Feb). Cinema and everything of value associated with it today: death by a thousand cuts.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2018

I'll add some of the more prominent critics lists when I receive my paper edition.

Precious Doll wrote:Manohla Dargis (New York Times). . .

5. Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher). . .

A.O. Scott (New York Times). . .

2. Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher). . .

An interesting coincidence is that one of the producers of Happy As Lazzaro is Carlo Cresto-Dina. He is married to Mariana Mazzucato, a somewhat famous economist, whose work I have been reading a little as part of research I am doing for a screenplay.

Vanity Fair's K. Austin Collins

1- First Reformed
2- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
3- You Were Never Really Here
4- If Beale Street Could Talk
5- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
6- The Other Side of the Wind
7- Minding the Gap
8- Zama
9- First Man
10- Sollers Point

Manohla Dargis (New York Times)
1. Roma (Cuaron)
2. Burning (Lee)
3. Shoplifters (Kore-eda)
4. Zama (Martel)
5. Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher)
6. BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
7. First Reformed (Schrader)
8. The Death of Stalin (Iannucci)
9. Monrovia, Indiana (Wiseman)
10. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) (Dorsky)

A.O. Scott (New York Times)

1. Monrovia, Indiana (Wiseman); Bisbee '17 (Greene); Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Ross); Minding the Gap (Liu)
2. Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher)
3. First Reformed (Schrader)
4. Private Life (Jenkins)
5. Roma (Cuaron)
6. Let the Sunshine In (Denis)
7. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Heller)
8. BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
9. Capernaum (Labaki)
10. The Favourite (Lanthimos)