Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2019 Movies

Jordan Cronk: Top 20 Films of 2019

27 November 2019

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

[see also 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

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