Year-End Lists

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2019

[see also 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. Jeannette: The Childhood of 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 2018, 2017, 2016, 2012]

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

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

• Phoenix — Christian Petzold
• Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
• Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Transit — Christian Petzold
• Gone Girl — David Fincher
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
• Melancholia — Lars von Trier
• No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
• Elle — Paul Verhoeven

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