Year-End Lists

Tomris Laffly: Top 25 Films of 2019, as submitted to the RogerEbert.com Survey and posted to Twitter

[see also 2018]

1. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
2. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
3. For Sama — Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
5. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
6. Invisible Life — Karim Aïnouz
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
8. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
9. Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
10. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
11. The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
12. Waves — Trey Edward Shults
13. Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
14. Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
15. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
16. Midsommar — Ari Aster
17. The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
18. 3 Faces — Jafar Panahi
19. Transit — Christian Petzold
20. I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
21. Sea of Shadows — Richard Ladkani
22. Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
23. Midnight Traveler — Hassan Fazili
24. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
25. Monos — Alejandro Landes

Sheila O’Malley: Top Ten Films of 2019, as submitted to the RogerEbert.com Survey

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
2. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
3. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
4. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
5. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
6. The Farewell — Lulu Wang
7. Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
8. Transit — Christian Petzold
9. Diane — Kent Jones
10. Rolling Thunder Revue — Martin Scorsese

Runner-ups

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
• High Life — Claire Denis
• Black Mother — Khalik Allah
• The Edge of Democracy — Petra Costa
• The Load — Ognjen Glavonic
• Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
• An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
• Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
• Climax — Gaspar Noé
• Wild Nights with Emily — Madeleine Olnek
• Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice — Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
• A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
• Chained for Life — Aaron Schimberg
• Rukus — Brett Hanover
• The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile — Joe Berlinger

Steve Erickson: The Year in Music, as published by Gay City News

1. FKA twigs — Magdalene
2. Polo G — Die a Legend
3. Weyes Blood — Titanic Rising
4. Big Thief — Two Hands
4. Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
5. Jenny Lewis — On the Line
6. Dorian Electra — Flamboyant
7. various artists — Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack
8. Orville Peck — Pony
9. Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
10. Pelada — Movimiento Para Cambio

Runners-up

• black midi — Schlagenheim
• Blanck Mass — Animated Violence Mild
• Blood Incantation — Hidden History of the Human Race
• Blood Orange — Angel's Pulse
• Blut Aus Nord — Hallucinogen
• Burna Boy — African Giant
• Charly Bliss — Young Enough
• Leonard Cohen — Thanks for the Dance
• Theon Cross — Fyah
• Denzel Curry — ZUU
• Default Genders — Main Pop Girl 2019
• Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• DIIV — Deceiver
• Ex Hex — It's Real
• Fire-Toolz — Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace)
• Florist — Emily Alone
• Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi — there is no Other
• Lucki — Freewave 3
• Lucki — Days B4 III
• Mdou Moctar — Ilana (The Creator)
• Bob Mould — Sunshine Rock
• Caroline Polachek — Pang
• Resavoir — Resavoir
• Tomeka Reid Quartet — Old New
• Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats — Anger Management
• 75 Dollar Bill — I Was Real
• slowthai — Nothing Great About Britain
• Tinashe — Songs for You
• Torche — Admission
• Triad God — Triad
• Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
• Michael Abels — Us (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Adia Victoria — Silences

David Rooney: Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

1. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
2. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
3. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
4. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
5. Invisible Life — Karim Aïnouz
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
7. Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
9. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
10. Us — Jordan Peele

Honorable mentions

• Atlantics — Mati Diop
• Clemency — Chinonye Chukwu
• The Farewell — Lulu Wang
• Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• Joker — Todd Phillips
• Knives Out — Rian Johnson
• The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
• Waves — Trey Edward Shults

Sheri Linden: Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

1. The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
2. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
3. Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
4. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
7. Waves — Trey Edward Shults
8. I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
9. An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
10. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg

Honorable mentions

• 63 Up — Michael Apted
• 1917 — Sam Mendes
• Amazing Grace — Sydney Pollack
• Cunningham — Alla Kovgan
• Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
• Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
• Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• Marona's Fantastic Tale — Anca Damian
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• Sea of Shadows — Richard Ladkani

Jon Frosch: Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

1. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
2. Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
4. Sorry Angel — Christophe Honoré
5. Non-Fiction — Olivier Assayas
6. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
7. Booksmart — Olivia Wilde
8. Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
9. End of the Century — Lucio Castro
10. Us — Jordan Peele

Honorable mentions

• Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
• Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• Invisible Life — Karim Aïnouz
• The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
• Sauvage / Wild — Camille Vidal-Naquet
• The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg

Todd McCarthy: The Best Films of 2019, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
2. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
3. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
4. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
6. The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
7. Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold
8. 1917 — Sam Mendes
9. Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
10. Cold Case Hammarskjöld — Mads Brügger

Honorable mentions

• Apollo 11 — Todd Douglas Miller
• Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
• Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
• Honey Boy — Alma Har'el
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• Rolling Thunder Revue — Martin Scorsese
• Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
• Transit — Christian Petzold
• The Two Popes — Fernando Meirelles

Kenneth Turan: Best Movies of 2019, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012]

1. Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold

The Rest Alphabetically

• The Irishman — Martin Scorsese

Israeli/Palestinian cinema

• Working Woman — Michal Aviad
• The Reports on Sarah and Saleem — Muayad Alayan
• The Other Story — Avi Nesher
• Tel Aviv on Fire — Sameh Zoabi
• Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
• Incitement — Yaron Zilberman

• Little Women — Greta Gerwig
• Maiden — Alex Holmes
• The Cave — Firas Fayyad
• Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
• 1917 — Sam Mendes
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
• Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
• Toy Story 4 — Josh Cooley
• I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin

A Second 10

• Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• Blinded by the Light — Gurinder Chadha
• Bombshell — Jay Roach
• Captain Marvel — Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
• Fast Color — Julia Hart
• Dolemite Is My Name — Craig Brewer
• Late Night — Nisha Ganatra
• The Edge of Democracy — Petra Costa
• Sea of Shadows — Richard Ladkani
• Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
• Peterloo — Mike Leigh
• Richard Jewell — Clint Eastwood
• The Two Popes — Fernando Meirelles

Justin Chang: Best Movies of 2019, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
2. Knives Out — Rian Johnson
3. Ash is Purest White — Jia Zhang-ke
4. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
5. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
6. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
7. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians — Radu Jude
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
10. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
11. Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
12. An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
13. High Life — Claire Denis
14. A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
15. Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
16. Transit — Christian Petzold
17. Give Me Liberty — Kirill Mikhanovsky
18. By the Grace of God — François Ozon
19. Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
20. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie

Five favorite documentaries

• American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Black Mother — Khalik Allah
• Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• One Child Nation — Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
• What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? — Roberto Minervini

15 honorable mentions

• Atlantics — Mati Diop
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Marielle Heller
• Clemency — Chinonye Chukwu
• Diane — Kent Jones
• The Farewell — Lulu Wang
• Fighting with My Family — Stephen Merchant
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Joe Talbot
• The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
• Midsommar — Ari Aster
• The Nightingale — Jennifer Kent
• Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
• Peterloo — Mike Leigh
• Sorry Angel — Christophe Honoré
• Us — Jordan Peele
• Waves — Trey Edward Shults

Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Beyoncé — Lemonade
3. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Taylor Swift — Red
5. David Bowie — Blackstar
6. Drake — Take Care
7. Lorde — Melodrama
8. Adele — 21
9. Pistol Annies — Interstate Gospel
10. LCD Soundsystem — This Is Happening
11. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
12. Frank Ocean — Blond
13. Kanye West — Yeezus
14. The Black Keys — Brothers
15. J Balvin — Vibras
16. Parquet Courts — Light Up Gold
17. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
18. Paul Simon — So Beautiful or So What
19. Taylor Swift — 1989
20. Solange — A Seat at the Table
21. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
22. Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
23. Robyn — Body Talk
24. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
25. Rihanna — Anti
26. Beyoncé — Beyoncé
27. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
28. Jason Isbell — Southeastern
29. Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
30. Ariana Grande — thank u, next
31. Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
32. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
33. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
34. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
35. D’Angelo and The Vanguard — Black Messiah
36. Randy Newman — Dark Matter
37. Frank Ocean — Channel Orange
38. Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
39. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
40. SZA — Ctrl
41. Sturgill Simpson — A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
42. Miranda Lambert — Platinum
43. Bob Dylan — Tempest
44. Haim — Days Are Gone
45. Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast — Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
46. Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball
47. Bon Iver — 22, A Million
48. Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
49. Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
50. Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
51. Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
52. Khalid — American Teen
53. Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel…
54. Japandroids — Celebration Rock
55. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
56. Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
57. Alabama Shakes — Boys & Girls
58. Miranda Lambert — The Weight of These Wings
59. Harry Styles — Harry Styles
60. Nicki Minaj — The Pinkprint
61. Waxahatchee — Cerulean Salt
62. Paul McCartney — Egypt Station
63. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
64. Sharon Van Etten — Are We There
65. St. Vincent — St. Vincent
66. Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city
67. Bad Bunny — X 100PRE
68. Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
69. Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
70. Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
71. Grimes — Art Angels
72. Jack White — Blunderbuss
73. Jenny Lewis — On the Line
74. Pusha T — Daytona
75. Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
76. Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
77. The Highwomen — The Highwomen
78. Soccer Mommy — Clean
79. Ke$ha — Rainbow
80. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks — Mirror Traffic
81. Brandi Carlile — By The Way, I Forgive You
82. Kamasi Washington — The Epic
83. Eric Church — Chief
84. Jamie xx — In Colour
85. Metallica — Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
86. Angel Olsen — My Woman
87. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
88. Arctic Monkeys — AM
89. Joanna Newsom — Have One On Me
90. Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Psychedelic Pill
91. Tierra Whack — Whack World
92. Vampire Weekend — Father of the Bride
93. U2 — Songs of Innocence
94. Sheer Mag — Need to Feel Your Love
95. Future — Monster
96. Low Cut Connie — Call Me Sylvia
97. Rich Gang — Tha Tour Part 1
98. John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness
99. Lana Del Rey — Ultraviolence
100. The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding