Sight & Sound Names ‘Roma’ the Best Film of 2018

Sight & Sound has unveiled its annual film poll, and the winner is unlikely to come as a surprise: “Roma,” whose awards-season dominance continues unabated.

Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white drama, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and has also been named the best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, has emerged as 2018’s most well-received cinematic offering — at least among critics.Rounding out the top five are Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” (which wasn’t released in the UK until this year), Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” (which was Lafca’s Best Picture runner-up), Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War,” and Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed.”More than 160 critics, programmers, and academics participated in the poll.

The full results:1.

“Roma”2.

“Phantom Thread”3.

“Burning”4.

“Cold War”5.

“First Reformed”6.

“Leave No Trace”7.

“The Favourite”= “You Were Never Really Here

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