Year-End Lists

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2019 Movies

Caden Mark Gardner: Top 25 Films of 2019

01 January 2020

My First Film [live] - Zia Anger

Caden Mark Gardner: Top 25 Films of 2019, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2018]

  1. My First Film [live]
    Zia Anger
  2. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
  3. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
  4. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  5. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
  6. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
  7. So Pretty
    Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
  8. Dark Waters
    Todd Haynes
  9. Atlantics
    Mati Diop
  10. Too Old to Die Young
    Nicolas Winding Refn
  11. Relaxer
    Joel Potrykus
  12. Empty Metal
    Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer
  13. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
    Bruno Dumont
  14. Knife+Heart
    Yann Gonzalez
  15. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
  16. Us
    Jordan Peele
  17. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
    Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
  18. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
  19. Chained for Life
    Aaron Schimberg
  20. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
  21. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
  22. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  23. Knives Out
    Rian Johnson
  24. The Gospel of Eureka
    Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
  25. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh
  26. Peterloo
    Mike Leigh
  27. Under the Silver Lake
    David Robert Mitchell

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