Year-End Lists

IndieWire: The 50 Best Movies of 2019, as voted by film critics from around the world

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1. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
   Céline Sciamma
6. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
7. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
9. Joker
   Todd Phillips
10. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
11. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
12. Knives Out
    Rian Johnson
13. Transit
    Christian Petzold
14. The Lighthouse
    Robert Eggers
15. Us
    Jordan Peele
16. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
17. Ad Astra
    James Gray
18. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
19. Atlantics
    Mati Diop
20. High Life
    Claire Denis
21. 1917
    Sam Mendes
22. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Joe Talbot
23. Jojo Rabbit
    Taika Waititi
24. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
25. Midsommar
    Ari Aster
26. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
27. Apollo 11
    Todd Douglas Miller
28. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
29. Waves
    Trey Edward Shults
30. Honeyland
    Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

The Rest of the Best

31. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
32. Booksmart
    Olivia Wilde
33. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
34. Monos
    Alejandro Landes
35. Dolemite Is My Name
    Craig Brewer
36. The Nightingale
    Jennifer Kent
37. Under the Silver Lake
    David Robert Mitchell
38. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
39. Toy Story 4
    Josh Cooley
40. La Flor
    Mariano Llinás
41. Honey Boy
    Alma Har'el
42. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Marielle Heller
43. Avengers: Endgame
    Anthony and Joe Russo
44. I Lost My Body
    Jérémy Clapin
45. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria
46. Birds of Passage
    Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
47. Diane
    Kent Jones
48. Peterloo
    Mike Leigh
49. Give Me Liberty
    Kirill Mikhanovsky
50. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov