Published in Sight and Sound, January/February 2019. Alas, this list was put together before I saw A Bread Factory, playing in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center this coming weekend. I’ll be introducing the Saturday screening at 2 pm and interviewing Patrick Wang afterwards.  — J.R.

In alphabetical order:

Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)

The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)

Ray Meets Helen (Alan Rudolph)

Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)

If ties are permitted, I would add The Image Book(best experimental film, Jean-Luc Godard) and First Reformed (best love story, Paul Schrader).