Jordan Cronk: Top 20 Films of 2019, as submitted to the Film Comment poll and limited to U.S. theatrical releases
- La Flor — Mariano Llinás
- The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- High Life — Claire Denis
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
- What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? — Roberto Minervini
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Coincoin and the Extra-Humans — Bruno Dumont
- Angela's Diaries: Two Filmmakers — Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- Hotel by the River — Hong Sang-soo
- End of the Century — Lucio Castro
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
- In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
- The Plagiarists — Peter Parlow
- The Wandering Soap Opera — Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento