Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2019

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

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