Year-End Lists

Nicole Brenez: Top Films of the 2010s, as submitted to the collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015]

• Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
• Censor Must Die — Ing K
• The Silent Majority Speaks — Bani Khoshnoudi
• Wake (Subic) — John Gianvito
• Vapor Trail (Clark) — John Gianvito
• Sou Hami, la crainte de la nuit — Anne-Laure de Franssu and Mory Coulibaly
• The End of the World Begins with One Lie — Lech Kowalski
• Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin — Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín
• Nana — Valérie Massadian
• Rubber Coated Stee — Lawrence Abu Hamdan
• Field Niggas — Khalik Allah

And Ten Other Alternative Films

• Gens du lac — Jean-Marie Straub
• Nuit Bleue — Ange Leccia
• The Wild Frontier — Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval
• Sleep Has Her House — Scott Barley
• Impressions — Jacques Perconte
• Potato — O Meul
• Film Catastrophe — Paul Grivas
• The Burden — Niki Lindroth von Bahr
• Newsreel 63: The Train of Shadows — Nika Autor
• Holy Motors — Leos Carax

Miriam Bale: Best Films of the Decade, as posted to Twitter, in no particular order

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]

• Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Lemonade — Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
• Holy Motors — Leos Carax
• Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
• Gone Girl — David Fincher
• Somewhere — Sofia Coppola
• Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Kuichisan — Maiko Endo
• No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
• Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman

Bonus

• Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
• All Hong Sang-soo movies, peaking with ...
• The Day After — Hong Sang-soo

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

Darren Hughes: Favorite Films of the 2010s, as posted to Letterboxd, listed alphabetically

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012]

• As Without So Within — Manuela De Laborde
• Carol — Todd Haynes
• Delphi Falls — Mary Helena Clark
• The Dreamed Ones — Ruth Beckermann
• Ears, Nose and Throat — Kevin Jerome Everson
• Horse Money — Pedro Costa
• House of Pleasures — Bertrand Bonello
• The Immigrant — James Gray
• Let Your Light Shine — Jodie Mack
• Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
• The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
• The Mend — John Magary
• Museum Hours — Jem Cohen
• Onward Lossless Follows — Michael Robinson
• Red Capriccio — Blake Williams
• The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
• The Strange Little Cat — Ramon Zürcher
• Sun Song — Joel Wanek
• Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
• Zama — Lucrecia Martel

Jordan Ruimy: The 25 Best Movies of the Decade, as posted at World of Reel

1. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
2. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
4. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
7. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
8. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
9. Carol — Todd Haynes
10. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
11. Her — Spike Jonze
12. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
13. This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
14. Son of Saul — László Nemes
15. The Social Network — David Fincher
16. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
17. Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
18. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
19. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
20. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
21. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
22. Get Out — Jordan Peele
23. Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
24. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
25. Holy Motors — Leos Carax

Robin Hilton: Best Albums of 2019, as posted by NPR

[see also 2017]

1. Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
2. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
3. Holly Herndon — PROTO
4. Microwave — Death is a Warm Blanket
5. Ada Lea — what we say in private
6. Weyes Blood — Titanic Rising
7. Tiny Ruins — Olympic Girls
8. Great Grandpa — Four of Arrows
9. Molly Sarlé — Karaoke Angel
10. Kate Davis — Trophy

Bob Boilen: Best Albums of 2019, as posted by NPR

[see also 2018, 2017, 2011]

1. Big Thief — Two Hands
2. Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
3. Angel Olsen — All Mirrors
4. Better Oblivion Community Center — Better Oblivion Community Center
5. Aldous Harding — Designer
6. Lankum — The Livelong Day
7. Mdou Moctar — Ilana (The Creator)
8. Kate Davis — Trophy
9. Joan Shelley — Like the River Loves the Sea
10. The Good Ones — Rwanda, You Should Be Loved

Ann Powers: Favorite Albums of 2019, as posted by NPR

[see also 2017, 2016, 2011]

1. Angel Bat Dawid — The Oracle
2. Adia Victoria — Silences
3. Mereba — The Jungle Is the Only Way Out
4. Mekons — Deserted
5. Philip Bailey — Love Will Find a Way
6. Jazzmeia Horn — Love and Liberation
7. Hiss Golden Messenger — Terms of Surrender
8. Matthew Halsall — Oneness
9. Erin Enderlin — Faulkner County
10. Joe Henry — The Gospel According to Water

Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2019

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]

1. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
2. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
3. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
4. Atlantics — Mati Diop
5. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Transit — Christian Petzold
7. A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
8. High Life — Claire Denis
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino

Mallory Andrews: Best Films of 2019, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
2. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
3. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
4. High Life — Claire Denis
5. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
6. The Farewell — Lulu Wang
7. Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
8. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
9. The Hottest August — Brett Story
10. Ad Astra — James Gray