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2019 Movies

Jordan Cronk: Top 20 Films of 2019

27 November 2019

La Flor - Mariano Llinás

Jordan Cronk: Top 20 Films of 2019, as submitted to the Film Comment poll and limited to U.S. theatrical releases

[see also The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2021 • Top Ten Films of 2020 • The 50 Best Films of the 2010s • Top 20 Films of 2018 • Top Ten Films of 2017]

  1. La Flor
    Mariano Llinás
  2. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
  3. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
  4. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
  5. High Life
    Claire Denis
  6. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
  7. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
  8. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
    Roberto Minervini
  9. Transit
    Christian Petzold
  10. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
    Bruno Dumont
  11. Angela's Diaries: Two Filmmakers
    Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
  12. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
  13. Hotel by the River
    Hong Sang-soo
  14. End of the Century
    Lucio Castro
  15. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
  16. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  17. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
  18. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
  19. The Plagiarists
    Peter Parlow
  20. The Wandering Soap Opera
    Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento

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