2019 in Films
Format adapted from Charles François, who I still hope will one day rediscover his cinephilia and start hanging out with myself and the Skandies crew again. It’s been ten years since he last used it and I hereby declare it in the public domain.
Combine the first two columns for a list of films
released in 2019, and the last two columns for films seen in 2019.
Ordering is preferential when ratings are identical.
Seen Previously
Movies I saw in 2018 {or before} that were released in the U.S. in 2019.
Films not yet released but currently scheduled for this year are indicated by a (→). |
Seen in 2019
Movies I saw shortly before, during or after their 2019 U.S. run.
Asterisks (*) indicate films seen prior to their actual release. TV-only
"runs" (arbitrarily deemed eligible) get a (†). |
To Be Released
Movies I saw in 2019 which are still awaiting a U.S. release. Those known
to have lined up distribution are indicated by a (→). Production
{year} is listed if film is more than two years old. |
A For All Time
A- Event
B+/A- Near Great
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*La flor—Part 1
(Llinás) 81 |
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B+ Must See
| Under the Silver Lake
(Mitchell) 76 |
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→ A White, White Day
(Pálmason) 76 |
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Light of My Life
(Affleck) 74 |
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B/B+ Warmly Recommended
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It Must Be Heaven
(Suleiman) 71 |
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Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
(Tarantino) 69 |
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High Flying Bird
(Soderbergh) 69 |
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*La flor—Part 3
(Llinás) 69 |
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B Recommended
| Too Late to Die Young
(Sotomayor) 68 |
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They Shall Not Grow Old
(Jackson) 68 |
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*Sword of Trust
(Shelton) 67 |
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*Marriage Story
(Baumbach) 66 |
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| Hotel by the River
(Hong) 66 |
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About Endlessness
(Roy Andersson) 65 |
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I Heard You Paint Houses
(Scorsese) 64 |
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B-/B Recommended with Mild Reservations
| American Dharma
(Morris) 63 |
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| Dragged Across Concrete
(Zahler) 62 |
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→ Bad Education
(Finley) 62 |
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Dolemite Is My Name
(Brewer) 62 |
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| In Fabric
(Strickland) 61 |
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→ The Burnt Orange Heresy
(Capotondi) 61 |
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*Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(Sciamma) 61 |
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
(Talbot) 60 |
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*Motherless Brooklyn
(Norton) 60 |
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*Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue
(Scorsese) 60 |
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B- Recommended with Strong Reservations
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→ Vitalina Varela
(Costa) 59 |
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*I Lost My Body
(Clapin) 59 |
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Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
(Yuen) 59 |
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*Triple Frontier
(Chandor) 59 |
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*Official Secrets
(Hood) 58 |
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→ The Whistlers
(Porumboiu) 58 |
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Letter to the Editor
(Berliner) 58 |
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*The Peanut Butter Falcon
(Nilson, Schwartz) 57 |
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→ Bacurau
(Mendonça Filho, Dornelles) 57 |
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Annabelle Comes Home
(Dauberman) 57 |
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*All Is True
(Branagh) 56 |
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*Freaks
(Stein, Lipovsky) 56 |
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To the Ends of the Earth
(Kurosawa) 56 |
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*I Am Mother
(Sputore) 56 |
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Avengers: Endgame
(Russos) 55 |
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*La flor—Part 2
(Llinás) 55 |
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C+/B- On the Fence, Leaning Forward
| Ray & Liz
(Billingham) 54 |
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→ The Traitor
(Bellocchio) 54 |
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→ Sorry We Missed You
(Loach) 54 |
| Asako I & II
(Hamaguchi) 54 |
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
(Bi) 53 |
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The County
(Hákonarson) 53 |
| Ash Is Purest White
(Jia) 53 |
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*The Sound of Silence
(Tyburski) 53 |
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→ The Truth
(Kore-eda) 53 |
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State Funeral
(Loznitsa) 52 |
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*The Hole in the Ground
(Cronin) 52 |
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The Kid Who Would Be King
(Cornish) 52 |
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The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
(Dunham) 51 |
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Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of
Skywalker (Abrams) 51 |
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*Ip Man 4: The Finale
(Yip) 51 |
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C+ Take It or Leave It
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The Dead Don't Die
(Jarmusch) 50 |
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*The Fall of the American Empire
(Arcand) 50 |
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Varda by Agnès
(Varda) 50 |
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*Pain and Glory
(Almodóvar) 50 |
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Richard Jewell
(Eastwood) 50 |
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→ Martin Eden
(Marcello) 50 |
| A Faithful Man
(Garrel) 50 |
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*The Great Hack
(Amer, Noujaim) 49 |
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
(Gilliam) 49 |
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*The Lighthouse
(Eggers) 49 |
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| Everybody Knows
(Farhadi) 49 |
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*By the Grace of God
(Ozon) 49 |
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| Pasolini {2014} (Ferrara) 49 |
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The Moneychanger
(Veiroj) 48 |
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*The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The
Bigfoot (Krzykowski) 48 |
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The Nightingale (Kent)
48 |
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| The Wild Pear Tree
(Ceylan) 48 |
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→ A Girl Missing
(Fukada) 47 |
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The Wandering Soap Opera
(Ruiz, Sarmiento) 47 |
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Synchronic
(Benson, Moorhead) 47 |
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
(Heller) 46 |
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*A Million Little Pieces
(Taylor-Johnson) 46 |
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C/C+ On the Fence, Leaning Backward
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*A Hidden Life
(Malick) 45 |
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Guest of Honour
(Egoyan) 45 |
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*Birds of Passage
(Gallego, Guerra) 45 |
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| Girls of the Sun
(Husson) 44 |
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*The Two Popes
(Meirelles) 44 |
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*Trial by Fire
(Zwick) 43 |
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| The Command
(Vinterberg) 43 |
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Wasp Network
(Assayas) 43 |
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*The Song of Names
(Girard) 42 |
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→ Saturday Fiction
(Lou) 42 |
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*La flor—Part 4
(Llinás) 42 |
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C Pass
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→ Fire Will Come
(Laxe) 41 |
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*Mary Magdalene
(Davis) 41 |
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| Meeting Gorbachev
(Herzog, Singer) 41 |
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→ I Was at Home, but...
(Schanelec) 40 |
| Knife + Heart
(Gonzalez) 40 |
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*An Elephant Sitting Still
(Hu) 40 |
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→ The Wild Goose Lake
(Diao) 38 |
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*Vita & Virginia
(Button) 37 |
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C- Ugh
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The Heiresses
(Martinessi) 36 |
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| The Image Book
(Godard) 36 |
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→ The Personal History of David
Copperfield (Iannucci) 35 |
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*47 Meters Down: Uncaged
(Roberts) 33 |
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| The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
(Dolan) 33 |
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D+ Double-Ugh
D Bomb
F Burn the Negative
Walk-outs Channel Surfing
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Alice and the Mayor
(Pariser) |
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American Factory
(Bognar, Reichert) |
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Chained for Life
(Schimberg) |
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*The Chambermaid
(Avilés) |
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| Diamantino
(Abrantes, Schmidt) |
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Dogs Don't Wear Pants
(Valkeapää) |
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A Family Submerged
(Alché) |
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The Fourth Direction {2015}
(Singh) |
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Give Me Liberty
(Mikhanovsky) |
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Honeyland
(Stefanov, Kotevska) |
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John & Jane {2005}
(Ahluwalia) |
| Kinetta {2005} (Lanthimos)
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Land of Ashes
(Quirós Úbeda) |
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Long Way Home (Novais
Oliveira) |
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No. 7 Cherry Lane
(Yonfan) |
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Ordinary Love (D'Sa,
Leyburn) |
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*The Plagiarists (Parlow) |
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Ruben Brandt, Collector
(Krstić) |
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Sick, Sick, Sick (Furtado) |
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Slut in a Good Way
(Larain) |
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→ Sound of Metal
(Marder) |
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The Welts {2004}
(Piekorz) |
| Woman at War
(Erlingsson) |
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Incomplete Mishap/Bad Timing
