Steven D. Greydanus: Top Films of 2019, as published by The National Catholic Register
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
- Amazing Grace — Sydney Pollack
- The Farewell — Lulu Wang
- Light from Light — Paul Harrill
- Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
- They Shall Not Grow Old — Peter Jackson
- Little Women — Greta Gerwig
- Knives Out — Rian Johnson
- By the Grace of God — François Ozon
- American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
- Aquarela — Viktor Kosakovskiy
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
- For Sama — Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
- Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
- Maiden — Alex Holmes
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- Waves — Trey Edward Shults
10 Runners-Up (unranked)
- 1917 — Sam Mendes
- The Cave — Firas Fayyad
- Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold
- Hala — Minhal Baig
- Harriet — Kasi Lemmons
- Hesburgh — Patrick Creadon
- Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
- Klaus — Sergio Pablos
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
- Roll Red Roll — Nancy Schwartzman