The 10 best movie performances

1 YALITZA APARICIO

Roma

You can study acting your whole life and never feel you’re getting it right. Or you can be a total nonprofessional—someone who never dreamed of pursuing an acting career—and deliver a performance so finely textured that no one would guess you’d never before stepped in front of a camera. Aparicio, who plays Cleo, the domestic worker in Alfonso Cuarón’s semiautobiographical Roma, was teaching school in Oaxaca when the director found her. Lucky for him. Her performance is the kind of jewel a filmmaker could seek forever and never find.

2 ETHAN HAWKE

First Reformed

If you’re going to make a movie about