Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: The 25 Best Films of 2019, posted to his blog, Some Came Running, with links to his reviews and with a list of restored films

1. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
2. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
3. Black Mother
   Khalik Allah
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
5. High Life
   Claire Denis
6. Climax
   Gaspar Noé
7. Dragged Across Concrete
   S. Craig Zahler
8. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
9. Rolling Thunder Revue
   Martin Scorsese
10. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
11. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
12. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
13. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
14. The Burial Of Kojo
    Blitz Bazawule
15. Dark Waters
    Todd Haynes
16. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
17. In Fabric
    Peter Strickland
18. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
19. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
20. The Dead Don't Die
    Jim Jarmusch
21. Suburban Birds
    Qiu Sheng
22. Sorry Angel
    Christophe Honoré
23. Non-Fiction
    Olivier Assayas
24. The Nightingale
    Jennifer Kent
25. Our Time
    Carlos Reygadas

Other Films Enjoyed and Reviewed, in Alphabetical Order

• Apollo 11
  Todd Douglas Miller
• Aquarela
  Viktor Kosakovskiy
• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke
• Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
  Chris Smith
• Burning Cane
  Phillip Youmans
• By the Grace of God
  François Ozon
• Diamantino
  Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
• The Eyes of Orson Welles
  Mark Cousins
• First Love
  Takashi Miike
• Grass
  Hong Sang-soo
• Hotel by the River
  Hong Sang-soo
• Knife+Heart
  Yann Gonzalez
• The Load
  Ognjen Glavonic
• Piercing
  Nicolas Pesce
• The Plagiarists
  Peter Parlow
• Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
  Matt Wolf
• Richard Jewell
  Clint Eastwood
• Shadow
  Zhang Yimou
• Sword of Trust
  Lynn Shelton
• Velvet Buzzsaw
  Dan Gilroy

Enjoyed but Not Reviewed

• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  Marielle Heller
• Diane
  Kent Jones
• Dolemite Is My Name
  Craig Brewer
• The Lighthouse
  Robert Eggers
• Midsommar
  Ari Aster
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• Us
  Jordan Peele