Year-End Lists

Ben Sachs: Top 12 Films of 2019, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. Sunset
   László Nemes
2. Belmonte
   Federico Veiroj
2. The Moneychanger
   Federico Veiroj
3. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
   Radu Jude
4. The Wild Pear Tree
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
5. The Image Book
   Jean-Luc Godard
6. Relaxer
   Joel Potrykus
7. Hotel by the River
   Hong Sang-soo
7. Grass
   Hong Sang-soo
8. Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
   Bruno Dumont
9. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
10. First Love
    Takashi Miike

Honorable Mentions (in order of preference)

• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa
• Give Me Liberty
  Kirill Mikhanovsky
• Pain and Glory
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Richard Jewell
  Clint Eastwood
• The Sower
  Marine Francen
• The Laundromat
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Wandering Soap Opera
  Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
• Ghost Tropic
  Bas Devos
• The Grand Bizarre
  Jodie Mack
• the last 40 minutes of The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese