Michael Glover Smith: Top 25 Films of 2019, posted on his blog White City Cinema
- Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Rolling Thunder Revue — Martin Scorsese
- The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
- Coincoin and the Extra-Humans — Bruno Dumont
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
- High Life — Claire Denis
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- Black Mother — Khalik Allah
- Pasolini — Abel Ferrara
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
- Grass — Hong Sang-soo
- Hotel by the River — Hong Sang-soo
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Saint Frances — Alex Thompson
- Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- Knives and Skin — Jennifer Reeder