Year-End Lists

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2019 Movies

A.V. Club: Best Films of 2019

16 December 2019

The Irishman - Martin Scorsese

The A.V. Club: Best Films of 2019

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  1. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
  2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
  3. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  4. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
  5. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  6. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
  7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
  8. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
  9. Knives Out
    Rian Johnson
  10. Under the Silver Lake
    David Robert Mitchell
  11. Transit
    Christian Petzold
  12. The Nightingale
    Jennifer Kent
  13. High Life
    Claire Denis
  14. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
  15. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
  16. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  17. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Joe Talbot
  18. Us
    Jordan Peele
  19. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
  20. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh
  21. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
  22. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria
  23. Ad Astra
    James Gray
  24. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
  25. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo

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