Year-End Lists

Matt Fagerholm: Top Ten Films of 2019, as published by RogerEbert.com

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
   Céline Sciamma
2. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
3. The Nightingale
   Jennifer Kent
4. Hail Satan?
   Penny Lane
5. Saint Frances
   Alex Thompson
6. Chained for Life
   Aaron Schimberg
7. Waves
   Trey Edward Shults
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
9. The Load
   Ognjen Glavonic
10. One Child Nation
    Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

Runner-ups

• Diane
  Kent Jones
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• 1917
  Sam Mendes
• Memory: The Origins of Alien
  Alexandre O. Philippe
• Gloria Bell
  Sebastián Lelio
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Tape
  Deborah Kampmeier
• Share
  Pippa Bianco
• The Distant Barking of Dogs
  Simon Lereng Wilmont
• Knives Out
  Rian Johnson