This year’s installment of David Ehrlich’s video countdown: The 25 Best Films of 2019
[see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Ad Astra — James Gray
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
- Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Midsommar — Ari Aster
- High Life — Claire Denis
- Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda
- Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
- The Beach Bum — Harmony Korine
- The Hottest August — Brett Story
- Us — Jordan Peele
- Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria