Year-End Lists

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of the 2010s

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
4. Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
5. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
6. House of Pleasures — Bertrand Bonello
7. Goodbye to Language 3D — Jean-Luc Godard
8. Horse Money — Pedro Costa
9. Tabu — Miguel Gomes
10. Phoenix — Christian Petzold

Special Mentions

• The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
• Holy Motors — Leos Carax
• Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
• Sieranevada — Cristi Puiu

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2019

[see also 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
2. Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
3. Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello
4. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
5. Liberty — Albert Serra
6. Heimat is a Space in Time — Thomas Heise
7. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
9. Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
10. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese

Special Mentions

• Just Don't Think I'll Scream — Frank Beauvais
• Present.Perfect. — Shengze Zhu
• State Funeral — Sergei Loznitsa
• The Traitor — Marco Bellocchio
• Zombi Child — Bertrand Bonello

Reverse Shot: Best Films of the Decade, "determined by polling all the major and continuing contributors to Reverse Shot in the publication's history"

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]

1. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
2. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
5. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
7. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
8. Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
9. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
10. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
11. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
12. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
12. This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
13. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
14. Stray Dogs — Tsai Ming-liang
15. Carol — Todd Haynes
16. Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
17. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
18. Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
19. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
20. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan

Scott Tobias: The Best Films of 2019

[see also 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
2. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
3. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
6. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. Midsommar — Ari Aster
8. Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
9. Knives Out — Rian Johnson
10. Transit — Christian Petzold
11. The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
12. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
13. Dragged Across Concrete — S. Craig Zahler
14. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
15. American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
16. High Life — Claire Denis
17. First Love — Takashi Miike
18. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
19. The Hottest August — Brett Story
20. Light of My Life — Casey Affleck

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2019

[see also 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2012]

1. Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
2. Todd Snider — Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3
3. Chance the Rapper — The Big Day
4. Purple Mountains — Purple Mountains
5. Carsie Blanton — Buck Up
6. Kim Gordon — No Home Record
7. Danny Brown — uknowhatimsayin¿
8. Sonic Youth — Battery Park, NYC July 4th 2008
9. Kalie Shorr — Open Book
10. The Paranoid Style — A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life
11. Bruce Springsteen — Springsteen on Broadway
12. Salif Keita — Un Autre Blanc
13. Stella Donnelly — Beware of the Dogs
14. Big Thief — Two Hands
15. 75 Dollar Bill — I Was Real
16. Harriet Tubman — The Terror End of Beauty
17. black midi — Schlagenheim
18. Tanya Tagaq — Toothsayer
19. The Delines — The Imperial
20. CHAI — Punk
21. Lee "Scratch" Perry — Rainford
22. The Ex — 27 passports
23. that dog — Old LP
24. Tyler Childers — Country Squire
25. Leyla McCalla — Capitalist Blues
26. Sleater-Kinney — The Center Won't Hold
27. Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage — Bad Wiring
28. Alex Chilton — From Memphis to New Orleans
29. Ezra Furman — Twelve Nudes
30. Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
31. Diabel Cissokho — Rhythm of the Griot
32. Miranda Lambert — Wildcard
33. Craig Finn — I Need a New War
34. Charly Bliss — Young Enough
35. Little Simz — GREY Area
36. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
37. Rapsody — Eve
38. The National — I Am Easy to Find
39. Guy Clark — The Best of Dualtone Years
40. Youssou N'Dour — History
41. Rachid Taha — Je Suis Africain
42. Taylor Swift — Lover
43. Hama Sankaré — Ballébé
44. Pedro the Lion — Phoenix
45. Malibu Ken, Aesop Rock & TOBACCO — Malibu Ken
46. The Coathangers — The Devil You Know
47. Chuck Cleaver — Send Aid
48. Oumar Konaté — I Love You Inna
49. Epic Beard Men — This Was Supposed to Be Fun
50. Jamila Woods — LEGACY! LEGACY!
51. Derek Senn — How Could a Man
52. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba — Miri
53. Amber Mark — Conexão
54. Nicki Minaj — Queen
55. Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
56. slowthai — Nothing Great About Britain
57. Tyler Childers — Live on Red Barn Radio I & II
58. 100 gecs — 1000 gecs
59. Sudan Archives — Athena
60. Thiago Nassif — Três
61. Priests — The Seduction of Kansas
62. Saba — Care for Me
63. Madonna — Madame X
64. The Seeds — Pushin Too Hard (Original Soundtrack)
65. Raphael Saadiq — Jimmy Lee
66. Khalid — Free Spirit
67. Quelle Chris — Guns
68. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts — Milano
69. Lewis Capaldi — Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
70. Jealous of the Birds — Wisdom Teeth
71. Dua Saleh — Nūr
72. Sneaks — Highway Hypnosis
73. Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
74. Alex Chilton — Ocean Club '77
75. Serengeti — Dennis 6e
76. Bob Mould — Sunshine Rock

Lara Zarum: Top Ten Films of 2019, as posted by Filmmaker Magazine as part of the reconstructed Village Voice Film Poll

• Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
• The Farewell — Lulu Wang
• Hail Satan? — Penny Lane
• Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
• The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• Midsommar — Ari Aster
• Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
• Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
• Us — Jordan Peele

Anne Thompson: Top Ten Films of 2019, as posted by Filmmaker Magazine as part of the reconstructed Village Voice Film Poll

[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011]

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
2. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
3. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
4. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
5. Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold
6. Honey Boy — Alma Har'el
7. The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
8. Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
9. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
10. 1917 — Sam Mendes

Brian Darr: Top Ten Films of 2019, posted by Filmmaker Magazine as part of the reconstructed Village Voice Film Poll. Previously he submitted a list to the Senses of Cinema World Poll that includes a couple of additional entries, and it appears alongside lists of undistributed features, shorts, installations, and expanded cinema performances.

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013]

1. Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
2. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
3. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
4. Aniara — Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
5. High Life — Claire Denis
6. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. Midnight Traveler — Hassan Fazili
8. In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
9. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino

Senses of Cinema World Poll

• Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
• Aniara — Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
• High Life — Claire Denis
• Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Midnight Traveler — Hassan Fazili
• Transit — Christian Petzold
• Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
• The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino

Keith Phipps: Top 30 Films of the Decade, as posted to Twitter with a custom illustration for each entry

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014]

1. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
2. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
3. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
4. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
6. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
7. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
8. Winter's Bone — Debra Granik
9. Annihilation — Alex Garland
10. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
11. Her — Spike Jonze
12. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
13. Inside Out — Pete Docter
14. Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
15. Carol — Todd Haynes
16. Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
17. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
18. Get Out — Jordan Peele
19. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
20. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
21. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
22. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
23. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
24. The Social Network — David Fincher
25. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
26. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
27. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
28. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
29. Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
30. Mandy — Panos Cosmatos

Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Best Television of 2019, as published by The Wall Street Journal

[see also 2018]

• Das Boot
• For Sama
• Gentleman Jack
• Our Boys
• Press
• The Spy
• Tricky Dick