The 10 best movies

1 ROMA

Alfonso Cuarón has built a career making beautiful films, but Roma, his tribute to one of the women who raised him—played, with simmering warmth, by newcomer Yalitza Aparicio—is his most gorgeous and moving. This is a deeply personal film for Cuarón, but its embrace is universal: in telling his own story, he gets us thinking about the latticework of people who made each of us what we are. Roma is an ode to the power of memory, as intimate as a whisper and as vital as the roar of the sea.

2 WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

Sometimes it feels like everything is awful and nothing will ever get better. Yet Morgan Neville’s lyrical documentary about the quietest television superstar ever, Fred Rogers, of the long-running