Peter Bradshaw celebrates a peach of a film about ecstatic submission to love –the united No 1 choice of our British and American critics

Jordan Peele’s sleeper hit was a note-perfect dismantling of white American liberalism – but it was also chilling, hilarious and relentlessly entertaining

Daniel Day-Lewis makes his swansong in Paul Thomas Anderson’s pitch-black romantic comedy about falling in and out of love

As our countdown continues, Benjamin Lee celebrates Greta Gerwig’s alternately funny and poignant coming-of-age triumph

Our countdown of the year’s best continues with the Washington Post going into battle over the Vietnam war in Steven Spielberg’s exhilarating drama

Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairytale continues our countdown, with Sally Hawkins starring in a disturbing and thrilling romance that is the director’s best film to date

Another joint entry for the UK and US in our movie countdown – Xan Brooks hails an ambitious sci-fi sequel that took the original’s tantalising loose ends and ran with them

As our countdown continues, ninth place in both the UK and US is taken by a strange and haunting love story

Florence Pugh’s sphinxlike anti-heroine revolts against marriage and the wider balance of race, sex, power and class in this powerfully subversive film

A heartrending coming-of-age love story tops our assessment of the best films on US screens over the past year, pipping a kid’s-eye view of Florida, political intrigue, dystopian futures and nightmarish presents