Year-End Lists

K. Austin Collins: The 15 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2020, 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
1. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
2. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
3. An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
4. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
5. Atlantics — Mati Diop
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
7. Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
8. Black Mother — Khalik Allah
9. A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
10. Peterloo — Mike Leigh
11. Ghosts of Sugar Land — Bassam Tariq
12. Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
13. One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
14. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller

Honorable Mentions

• 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