Year-End Lists

In Review Online: Top 20 Films of 2019

1. An Elephant Sitting Still
   Hu Bo
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
5. Transit
   Christian Petzold
6. Ash is Purest White
   Jia Zhang-ke
7. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
8. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
9. A Hidden Life
   Terrence Malick
10. Black Mother
    Khalik Allah
11. Ad Astra
    James Gray
12. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
13. Gemini Man
    Ang Lee
14. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
15. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
16. Glass
    M. Night Shyamalan
17. High Life
    Claire Denis
18. Our Time
    Carlos Reygadas
19. Joker
    Todd Phillips
20. Dragged Across Concrete
    S. Craig Zahler

Honorable Mentions

• Cats
  Tom Hooper
• Chinese Portrait
  Wang Xiaoshuai
• Dark Waters
  Todd Haynes
• Grass
  Hong Sang-soo
• High Flying Bird
  Steven Soderbergh
• Honeyland
  Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• La Flor
  Mariano Llinás
• The Lighthouse
  Robert Eggers
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• Pain and Glory
  Pedro Almodóvar
• The Plagiarists
  Peter Parlow
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• 6 Underground
  Michael Bay
• Waves
  Trey Edward Shults