David Rooney: Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- Invisible Life — Karim Aïnouz
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Us — Jordan Peele
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- Clemency — Chinonye Chukwu
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
- Joker — Todd Phillips
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
- Waves — Trey Edward Shults