Year-End Lists

Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2019, as published by The New Yorker

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• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• The Dead Don't Die
  Jim Jarmusch
• An Elephant Sitting Still
  Hu Bo
• Us
  Jordan Peele
• Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
  Bruno Dumont
• Uncut Gems
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• My First Film [live]
  Zia Anger
• A Family Tour
  Ying Liang
• One Child Nation
  Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
• Her Smell
  Alex Ross Perry
• The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
  Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  Marielle Heller
• Frankie
  Ira Sachs
• Before Summer Ends
  Maryam Goormaghtigh
• August at Akiko's
  Christopher Makoto Yogi
• Birds of Passage
  Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• Richard Jewell
  Clint Eastwood
• Hotel by the River
  Hong Sang-soo
• Chaos
  Sara Fattahi
• The Competition
  Claire Simon
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• The Pig
  Mani Haghighi
• Burning Cane
  Phillip Youmans
• Napalm
  Claude Lanzmann
• Varda by Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• Chez jolie coiffure
  Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
• Tux and Fanny
  Albert Birney
• Harriet
  Kasi Lemmons
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Sword of Trust
  Lynn Shelton
• Return to Bollene
  Saïd Hamich
• High Flying Bird
  Steven Soderbergh
• Black Mother
  Khalik Allah
• Cassandro, the Exotico!
  Marie Losier
• Chained for Life
  Aaron Schimberg
• The Laundromat
  Steven Soderbergh
• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Waiting for the Barbarians
  Eugène Green
• The Image Book
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• The Burial Of Kojo
  Blitz Bazawule
• Two Plains & a Fancy
  Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
• Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
  Matt Wolf
• Ghosts of Sugar Land
  Bassam Tariq