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2019 Movies

Michael Glover Smith: Top 25 Films of 2019

20 December 2019

Michael Glover Smith: Top 25 Films of 2019, posted on his blog White City Cinema

  1. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
  2. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
  3. Rolling Thunder Revue
    Martin Scorsese
  4. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
  5. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
    Bruno Dumont
  6. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
  7. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
  8. High Life
    Claire Denis
  9. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  10. Atlantics
    Mati Diop
  11. Black Mother
    Khalik Allah

The Runners-Up

  1. Pasolini
    Abel Ferrara
  2. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
  3. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
  4. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
  5. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
  6. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
  7. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  8. Richard Jewell
    Clint Eastwood
  9. Grass
    Hong Sang-soo
  10. Hotel by the River
    Hong Sang-soo
  11. The Wild Pear Tree
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  12. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  13. Saint Frances
    Alex Thompson
  14. Varda by Agnès
    Agnès Varda
  15. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
  16. Knives and Skin
    Jennifer Reeder

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