Year-End Lists

K. Austin Collins: The 15 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Vanity Fair

1. Ash is Purest White
   Jia Zhang-ke
1. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
2. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
3. An Elephant Sitting Still
   Hu Bo
4. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
5. Atlantics
   Mati Diop
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
7. Asako I & II
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
8. Black Mother
   Khalik Allah
9. A Hidden Life
   Terrence Malick
10. Peterloo
    Mike Leigh
11. Ghosts of Sugar Land
    Bassam Tariq
12. Birds of Passage
    Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
13. One Child Nation
    Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
14. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Marielle Heller

Honorable Mentions

• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Aniara
  Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
• Avengement
  Jesse V. Johnson
• Chained for Life
  Aaron Schimberg
• The Dead Don't Die
  Jim Jarmusch
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Her Smell
  Alex Ross Perry
• High Flying Bird
  Steven Soderbergh
• Light from Light
  Paul Harrill
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• Pain and Glory
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• The Sun Is Also a Star
  Ry Russo-Young
• Transit
  Christian Petzold
• Us
  Jordan Peele
• Varda by Agnès
  Agnès Varda