Todd McCarthy: The Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
- Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold
- 1917 — Sam Mendes
- Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
- Cold Case Hammarskjöld — Mads Brügger
- Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
- Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
- Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
- Honey Boy — Alma Har'el
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Rolling Thunder Revue — Martin Scorsese
- Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- The Two Popes — Fernando Meirelles