Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019 (a poll of 100 contributors published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
2. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
3. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
   Céline Sciamma
6. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
7. Atlantics
   Mati Diop
8. Bait
   Mark Jenkin
9. Us
   Jordan Peele
10. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
11. High Life
    Claire Denis
12. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
13. Monos
    Alejandro Landes
14. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
15. For Sama
    Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
16. Midsommar
    Ari Aster
17. The Lighthouse
    Robert Eggers
18. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
19. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria
20. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
21. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
22. Border
    Ali Abbasi
23. Transit
    Christian Petzold
24. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
25. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
26. The Hottest August
    Brett Story
27. Ad Astra
    James Gray
28. Varda by Agnès
    Agnès Varda
29. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
30. In Fabric
    Peter Strickland
31. Knives Out
    Rian Johnson
32. Booksmart
    Olivia Wilde
33. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
34. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
35. Zombi Child
    Bertrand Bonello
36. America
    Garrett Bradley
37. No Data Plan
    Miko Revereza
38. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
39. Joker
    Todd Phillips
40. Ray & Liz
    Richard Billingham
41. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
42. I Lost My Body
    Jérémy Clapin
43. Holiday
    Isabella Eklöf
44. Honeyland
    Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
45. Rocks
    Sarah Gavron
46. Rose Plays Julie
    Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor
47. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
48. Just Don't Think I'll Scream
    Frank Beauvais
49. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
50. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Sight & Sound Poll: B. Ruby Rich: The Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Caitlin Quinlan: Ten Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Christina Newland: The Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Elena Lazic: Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Erika Balsom: Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Simran Hans: The Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: So Mayer: The Best Films of 2019
• Sight & Sound Poll: Vadim Rizov: The Best Films of 2019

Jordan Cronk: Top 20 Films of 2019, as submitted to the Film Comment poll and limited to U.S. theatrical releases

[see also The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2021 • Top Ten Films of 2020 • The 50 Best Films of the 2010s • Top 20 Films of 2018 • Top Ten Films of 2017]

1. La Flor
   Mariano Llinás
2. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
3. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
5. High Life
   Claire Denis
6. An Elephant Sitting Still
   Hu Bo
7. Synonyms
   Nadav Lapid
8. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
   Roberto Minervini
9. Transit
   Christian Petzold
10. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
    Bruno Dumont
11. Angela's Diaries: Two Filmmakers
    Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
12. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
13. Hotel by the River
    Hong Sang-soo
14. End of the Century
    Lucio Castro
15. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
16. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
17. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
18. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
19. The Plagiarists
    Peter Parlow
20. The Wandering Soap Opera
    Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento

Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
4. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
5. Little Women
   Greta Gerwig
6. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
7. Knives Out
   Rian Johnson
8. Dolemite Is My Name
   Craig Brewer
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
   Marielle Heller
10. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria

Honorable Mentions

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• The Beach Bum
  Harmony Korine
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Booksmart
  Olivia Wilde
• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Birds of Passage
  Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• 1917
  Sam Mendes
• Gloria Bell
  Sebastián Lelio
• Motherless Brooklyn
  Edward Norton

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
2. Transit
   Christian Petzold
3. It Must Be Heaven
   Elia Suleiman
4. Flannery
   Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco
5. Foxtrot
   Samuel Maoz
6. Conrad Veidt: My Life
   Mark Rappaport
7. Where's My Roy Cohn?
   Matt Tyrnauer
8. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
9. Ad Astra
   James Gray
10. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019