Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2019

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1. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
2. Transit
   Christian Petzold
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
4. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
5. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
6. Ash is Purest White
   Jia Zhang-ke
7. La Flor
   Mariano Llinás
8. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
9. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
10. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
11. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
12. Atlantics
    Mati Diop
13. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
14. Black Mother
    Khalik Allah
15. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Marielle Heller
16. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
17. Peterloo
    Mike Leigh
18. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
    Radu Jude
19. High Life
    Claire Denis
20. The Beach Bum
    Harmony Korine
21. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
22. Ad Astra
    James Gray
23. The Competition
    Claire Simon
24. Chinese Portrait
    Wang Xiaoshuai
25. The Gospel of Eureka
    Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri

The Runners-Up

26. The Plagiarists
    Peter Parlow
27. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
28. The Lighthouse
    Robert Eggers
29. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
    Roberto Minervini
30. End of the Century
    Lucio Castro
31. Ray & Liz
    Richard Billingham
32. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
33. Honeyland
    Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
34. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
35. Varda by Agnès
    Agnès Varda
36. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
37. Dragged Across Concrete
    S. Craig Zahler
38. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
39. Diane
    Kent Jones
40. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
41. I Lost My Body
    Jérémy Clapin
42. Gemini Man
    Ang Lee
43. Shadow
    Zhang Yimou
44. In Fabric
    Peter Strickland
45. Us
    Jordan Peele
46. The Mountain
    Rick Alverson
47. Our Time
    Carlos Reygadas
48. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
49. The Dead Don't Die
    Jim Jarmusch
50. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt