K. Austin Collins: The 15 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Vanity Fair
[see also 2020, 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016]
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Black Mother — Khalik Allah
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- Peterloo — Mike Leigh
- Ghosts of Sugar Land — Bassam Tariq
- Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
- One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
- Ad Astra — James Gray
- Aniara — Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
- Avengement — Jesse V. Johnson
- Chained for Life — Aaron Schimberg
- The Dead Don't Die — Jim Jarmusch
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
- High Flying Bird — Steven Soderbergh
- Light from Light — Paul Harrill
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- The Sun Is Also a Star — Ry Russo-Young
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Us — Jordan Peele
- Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda