Year-End Lists

IndieWire: The 50 Best Movies of 2019, as voted by film critics from around the world

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
2. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
3. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
6. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
7. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
9. Joker — Todd Phillips
10. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
11. The Farewell — Lulu Wang
12. Knives Out — Rian Johnson
13. Transit — Christian Petzold
14. The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
15. Us — Jordan Peele
16. A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
17. Ad Astra — James Gray
18. Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
19. Atlantics — Mati Diop
20. High Life — Claire Denis
21. 1917 — Sam Mendes
22. The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
23. Jojo Rabbit — Taika Waititi
24. An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
25. Midsommar — Ari Aster
26. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
27. Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
28. Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
29. Waves — Trey Edward Shults
30. Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

The Rest of the Best

31. Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
32. Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
33. The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
34. Monos — Alejandro Landes
35. Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
36. The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
37. Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
38. Climax — Gaspar Noé
39. Toy Story 4 — Josh Cooley
40. La Flor — Mariano Llinás
41. Honey Boy — Alma Har'el
42. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
43. Avengers: Endgame — Anthony and Joe Russo
44. I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
45. Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
46. Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
47. Diane — Kent Jones
48. Peterloo — Mike Leigh
49. Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
50. Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov