Year-End Lists

David Rooney: Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

1. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
2. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
3. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
4. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
5. Invisible Life
   Karim Aïnouz
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
7. Give Me Liberty
   Kirill Mikhanovsky
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
   Céline Sciamma
9. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
10. Us
    Jordan Peele

Honorable mentions

• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• Clemency
  Chinonye Chukwu
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Honeyland
  Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• Joker
  Todd Phillips
• Knives Out
  Rian Johnson
• The Lighthouse
  Robert Eggers
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• One Child Nation
  Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
• Waves
  Trey Edward Shults