Caden Mark Gardner: Top 25 Films of 2019, as posted to Twitter
[see also 2018]
- My First Film [live] — Zia Anger
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- So Pretty — Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
- Dark Waters — Todd Haynes
- Atlantics — Mati Diop
- Too Old to Die Young — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Relaxer — Joel Potrykus
- Empty Metal — Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer
- Coincoin and the Extra-Humans — Bruno Dumont
- Knife+Heart — Yann Gonzalez
- Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
- Us — Jordan Peele
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open — Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Chained for Life — Aaron Schimberg
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- The Gospel of Eureka — Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
- High Flying Bird — Steven Soderbergh
- Peterloo — Mike Leigh
- Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell