The results are in for Sight & Sound’s 2018 Critics Poll. The anticipated poll sees critics, programmers, and academics from around the world voting for their favorite films of the year. Overall, the list contains 20 spots, but due to ties, 27 titles appear. Of those 27 titles, 10 are directed or co-directed by women, or 37 percent overall.
Four women-directed titles cracked this year’s top 10 list: Debra Granik’s father-daughter drama “Leave No Trace,” Lynne Ramsay’s vigilante thriller “You Were Never Really Here,” Alice Rohrwacher’s rural Italy-set fable “Happy As Lazzaro,” and Lucrecia Martel’s colonialism drama “Zama.”
The list also includes Sandi Tan’s “Shirkers,” a documentary about a film she made that went missing, Agnès Varda and J.R.’s road trip documentary “Faces Places,” Chloe Zhao’s cowboy drama “The Rider,” Valeska Grisebach’s culture clash drama “Western,” Claire Denis’ space story “High Life,” and Josephine Decker’s physical theater drama “Madeline’s Madeline.”
Sight and Sound’s 2017 Critics Poll included six titles directed or co-directed by women, and included Claire Denis’ Juliette Binoche-starrer “Let the Sunshine In” and Dee Rees’ “Mudbound,” a drama about black and white WWII vets who form a precarious friendship in Mississippi.
