When in Roma...

Fast on the heels of the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle announced its best of 2018:

• Best Picture: “Roma”
• Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
• Best Screenplay: Paul Scharder, “First Reformed”
• Best Actress: Regina Hall, “Support the Girls”
• Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
• Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
• Best Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
• Best Cinematography: “Roma,” Alfonso Cuaron
• Best Non-fiction Film: “Minding the Gap,” director Bing Liu
• Best Foreign Language Film: “Cold War,” director Pawel Pawlikowski
• Best Animated Feature: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
• Best First Film: “Eighth Grade,” director Bo Burnham
• Special Award For Career Achievement: David Schwartz, Chief Film Curator at Museum of the Moving Image for 33 years
• Special Award: Kino Classics Box Set “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers”

Interesting seeing both Pawlikowski and Hawke honored. Makes me think of an underrated movie they made together in 2011. Also makes me want to see “Cold War.”

NYFCC's big winner, “Roma,” I won't be able to see until Dec. 7 at the Cinerama in Seattle. Wanted to go big screen on it. But I‘ve tended to like NYFCC’s choices. Past NYFCC winners here, with thoughts.