Michael Phillips: The Best Movies of 2019, as published by The Chicago Tribune
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
- Waves — Trey Edward Shults
- Present.Perfect. — Shengze Zhu
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
- Toy Story 4 — Josh Cooley
- Us — Jordan Peele
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan