- 1917 — Sam Mendes
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- Avengers: Endgame — Anthony and Joe Russo
- Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
- The Cave — Firas Fayyad
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- Fast Color — Julia Hart
- Gloria Bell — Sebastián Lelio
- Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
- I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Midsommar — Ari Aster
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Us — Jordan Peele
Year-End Lists
Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.