Year-End Lists

Nick Schager: The Best Movies of 2019, as published by Esquire

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1. The Lighthouse
   Robert Eggers
2. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
3. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
4. Transit
   Christian Petzold
5. A Hidden Life
   Terrence Malick
6. Little Women
   Greta Gerwig
7. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse
   Lukas Feigelfeld
9. Under the Silver Lake
   David Robert Mitchell
10. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
11. The Beach Bum
    Harmony Korine
12. Gloria Bell
    Sebastián Lelio
13. Monos
    Alejandro Landes
14. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
15. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
16. Diane
    Kent Jones
17. Apollo 11
    Todd Douglas Miller
18. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
19. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
20. In Fabric
    Peter Strickland
21. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
22. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
23. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
24. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
25. Birds of Passage
    Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
26. Shadow
    Zhang Yimou
27. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Chad Stahelski
28. The Edge of Democracy
    Petra Costa
29. High Life
    Claire Denis
30. The Mountain
    Rick Alverson
31. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Joe Talbot
32. Tell Me Who I Am
    Ed Perkins
33. Ford v Ferrari
    James Mangold
34. Ad Astra
    James Gray
35. Burning Cane
    Phillip Youmans
36. Crawl
    Alexandre Aja
37. Plus One
    Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer
38. The Great Hack
    Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
39. The Burial Of Kojo
    Blitz Bazawule
40. American Factory
    Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
41. I Lost My Body
    Jérémy Clapin
42. Invisible Life
    Karim Aïnouz
43. One Cut of the Dead
    Shin'ichirô Ueda
44. Tigers Are Not Afraid
    Issa López
45. Dolemite Is My Name
    Craig Brewer
46. It Chapter Two
    Andy Muschietti
47. Skin
    Guy Nattiv
48. Fast Color
    Julia Hart
49. The Dead Don't Die
    Jim Jarmusch
50. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2019