Year-End Lists

Caitlin Quinlan: Ten Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• Uncut Gems
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• Monos
  Alejandro Landes
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  Joe Talbot
• Workforce
  David Zonana
• Rocks
  Sarah Gavron
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• Babyteeth
  Shannon Murphy
• Baracoa
  Pablo Briones

This list contributes to:

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

Christina Newland: The Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  Quentin Tarantino
• About Endlessness
  Roy Andersson
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Knives Out
  Rian Johnson
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• Hustlers
  Lorene Scafaria
• Crawl
  Alexandre Aja

This list contributes to:

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

Cinematary: Top 10 of 2019

1. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
2. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
3. Us
   Jordan Peele
4. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
5. Ash is Purest White
   Jia Zhang-ke
6. The Lighthouse
   Robert Eggers
7. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
8. Knives Out
   Rian Johnson
9. Transit
   Christian Petzold
10. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang

Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Best Television of 2019, as published by The Wall Street Journal

[see also 2018]

• Das Boot
• For Sama
• Gentleman Jack
• Our Boys
• Press
• The Spy
• Tricky Dick

Boston.com: The 18 Best Books of 2019

[see also 2018]

Fiction

• Where Reasons End
  Yiyun Li
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Territory of Light
  Yuko Tsushima
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• Deep River
  Karl Marlantes
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
  László Krasznahorkai
• The Dutch House
  Ann Patchett
• Wake, Siren

  Ovid Resung
  Nina MacLaughlin

Poetry

• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction

• Inheritance

  A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
  Dani Shapiro
• What You Have Heard Is True

  A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  Carolyn Forché
• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller
• The Education of an Idealist
  Samantha Power
• The Body

  A Guide for Occupants
  Bill Bryson

Sight & Sound Magazine: The Best TV Series of 2019, the results of the Sight & Sound TV Poll

[see also 2021 • 2020]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. Chernobyl
4. Russian Doll
5. Unbelievable
6. When They See Us
7. Mindhunter
8. Years and Years
9. Watchmen
10. Stath Lets Flats

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
2. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
3. Synonyms
   Nadav Lapid
4. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
5. Joan of Arc
   Bruno Dumont
6. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
7. Les Misérables
   Ladj Ly
8. The Mule
   Clint Eastwood
9. Joker
   Todd Phillips
10. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese

Publishers Weekly: 5 Best Poetry Books of 2019

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

• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Hybrida
  Tina Chang
• The Octopus Museum
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• To the Wren

  Collected & New Poems
  Jane Mead
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown

Vibe Magazine: The 30 Best Albums of 2019

[see also 2018 • 2017]

1. Shea Butter Baby
   Ari Lennox
2. The Plugs I Met
   Benny the Butcher
3. The Lion King: The Gift
   Beyoncé
4. Homecoming: The Live Album
   Beyoncé
5. African Giant
   Burna Boy
6. KIRK
   DaBaby
7. CASE STUDY 01
   Daniel Caesar
8. uknowhatimsayin¿
   Danny Brown
9. Hot Pink
   Doja Cat
10. Revenge of the Dreamers III
    Dreamville
11. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
12. Diaspora
    GoldLink
13. Drip or Drown 2
    Gunna
14. LEGACY! LEGACY!
    Jamila Woods
15. El Capo
    Jim Jones
16. Gilda
    Kemba
17. May the Lord Watch
    Little Brother
18. Painted
    Lucky Daye
19. Kiwanuka
    Michael Kiwanuka
20. Jimmy Lee
    Raphael Saadiq
21. Eve
    Rapsody
22. Port of Miami 2
    Rick Ross
23. Chasing Summer
    SiR
24. - Ugh, those feels again
    Snoh Aalegra
25. When I Get Home
    Solange
26. Over It
    Summer Walker
27. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator
28. Wow... That's Crazy
    Wale
29. So Much Fun
    Young Thug
30. The Lost Boy
    YBN Cordae

Anthony Frame: 10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed, as published by Chicago Review of Books

• The Year of Blue Water
  Yanyi
• Bodega
  Su Hwang
• A Sand Book
  Ariana Reines
• turn around, BRXGHT XYXS
  Rosebud Ben-Oni
• Bicycle in a Ransacked City

  An Elegy
  Andrés Cerpa
• Mannequin in the Nude
  Logan February
• Hard Damage
  Aria Aber
• The Uninhabitable
  Jesse Rice-Evans
• Hull
  Xandria Phillips
• Afakasi - Half-Caste
  Hali F Sofala-Jones