Year-End Lists

Jordan Cronk: Top 20 Films of 2019, as submitted to the Film Comment poll and limited to U.S. theatrical releases

[see also 2020, 2010s, 2018, 2017]

1. La Flor — Mariano Llinás
2. The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
3. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
5. High Life — Claire Denis
6. An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
7. Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
8. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? — Roberto Minervini
9. Transit — Christian Petzold
10. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans — Bruno Dumont
11. Angela's Diaries: Two Filmmakers — Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
12. A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
13. Hotel by the River — Hong Sang-soo
14. End of the Century — Lucio Castro
15. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
16. Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
17. Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
18. In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
19. The Plagiarists — Peter Parlow
20. The Wandering Soap Opera — Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento