1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. We the Animals
3. Cold War
4. The Rider
5. The Favourite
6. Eighth Grade
7. Burning
8. A Star Is Born
9. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
10. Madeline's Madeline
(Note: Peary created separate lists for narrative and documentary films, and I had no means of contacting him to ask if he'd merge them. So I used the narrative list. Arguably unfair to documentaries, but he put this one first; he also included foreign films here even though he also offered a separate foreign top five, of which the top two are represented above. Anyway, it's an imperfect exercise, to say the least.)