IndieWire: The 50 Best Movies of 2019, as voted by film critics from around the world
[see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- Joker — Todd Phillips
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
- Us — Jordan Peele
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- Ad Astra — James Gray
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- High Life — Claire Denis
- 1917 — Sam Mendes
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
- Jojo Rabbit — Taika Waititi
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- Midsommar — Ari Aster
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
- Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
- Waves — Trey Edward Shults
- Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
- Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
- Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
- The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
- Monos — Alejandro Landes
- Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
- The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
- Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
- Climax — Gaspar Noé
- Toy Story 4 — Josh Cooley
- La Flor — Mariano Llinás
- Honey Boy — Alma Har'el
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
- Avengers: Endgame — Anthony and Joe Russo
- I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
- Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
- Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
- Diane — Kent Jones
- Peterloo — Mike Leigh
- Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
- Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov