Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2019, as published by The New York Times

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1. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
4. Little Women
   Greta Gerwig
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
6. Synonyms
   Nadav Lapid
7. Transit
   Christian Petzold
8. American Factory
   Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
9. One Child Nation
   Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Joe Talbot

And ...

• 3 Faces
  Jafar Panahi
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Apollo 11
  Todd Douglas Miller
• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  Marielle Heller
• The Brink
  Alison Klayman
• The Cave
  Firas Fayyad
• Charlie Says
  Mary Harron
• Clemency
  Chinonye Chukwu
• The Disappearance of My Mother
  Beniamino Barrese
• Dolemite Is My Name
  Craig Brewer
• Ford v Ferrari
  James Mangold
• Give Me Liberty
  Kirill Mikhanovsky
• Gloria Bell
  Sebastián Lelio
• Hail Satan?
  Penny Lane
• Invisible Life
  Karim Aïnouz
• Honeyland
  Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
• Knock Down the House
  Rachel Lears
• Late Night
  Nisha Ganatra
• Leto
  Kirill Serebrennikov
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• Midnight Family
  Luke Lorentzen
• Pasolini
  Abel Ferrara
• Peterloo
  Mike Leigh
• Richard Jewell
  Clint Eastwood
• Rolling Thunder Revue
  Martin Scorsese
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• Uncut Gems
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Us
  Jordan Peele
• Varda by Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• Waves
  Trey Edward Shults