Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2019
[see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- La Flor — Mariano Llinás
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- Black Mother — Khalik Allah
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Peterloo — Mike Leigh
- I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians — Radu Jude
- High Life — Claire Denis
- The Beach Bum — Harmony Korine
- Climax — Gaspar Noé
- Ad Astra — James Gray
- The Competition — Claire Simon
- Chinese Portrait — Wang Xiaoshuai
- The Gospel of Eureka — Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
- The Plagiarists — Peter Parlow
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
- What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? — Roberto Minervini
- End of the Century — Lucio Castro
- Ray & Liz — Richard Billingham
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
- In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
- Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda
- Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
- Dragged Across Concrete — S. Craig Zahler
- The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
- Diane — Kent Jones
- Asako I & II — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
- Gemini Man — Ang Lee
- Shadow — Zhang Yimou
- In Fabric — Peter Strickland
- Us — Jordan Peele
- The Mountain — Rick Alverson
- Our Time — Carlos Reygadas
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- The Dead Don't Die — Jim Jarmusch
- Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt