Year-End Lists

Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2019, as posted to Twitter

• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Amazing Grace
  Sydney Pollack
• Apollo 11
  Todd Douglas Miller
• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke
• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• Birds of Passage
  Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• Booksmart
  Olivia Wilde
• Diane
  Kent Jones
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Ford v Ferrari
  James Mangold
• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• Just Mercy
  Destin Daniel Cretton
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  Joe Talbot
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• Transit
  Christian Petzold

And a quick list of TV shows that I considered as powerful as movies

• Fleabag (season 2)
• Unbelievable
• Watchmen