Top 19 of 2019
1. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan; China)
2. Transit (Christian Petzold; Germany)
3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho; South Korea)
4. Uncut Gems (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie; USA)
5. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke; China)
6. Little Women (Greta Gerwig; USA)
7. Us (Jordan Peele; USA)
8. High Life (Claire Denis; France)
9. Peterloo (Mike Leigh; UK)
10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot; USA)
11. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo; China)
12. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles; Brazil)
13. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar; Spain)
14. The Farewell (Lulu Wang; USA)
15. By the Grace of God (François Ozon; France)
16. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell; USA)
17. In Fabric (Peter Strickland; UK)
18. Atlantics (Mati Diop; Senegal)
19. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas; Mexico)
19 honorable mentions in alphabetical order:
Asako I & II (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi; Japan)
Climax (Gaspar Noé; France/Belgium)
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Portugal)
Dolemite Is My Name (Craig Brewer; USA)
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry; USA)
Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria; USA)
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard; Switzerland)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese; USA)
Jojo Rabbit (Taiki Waititi; USA)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson; USA)
The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh; USA)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers; USA/Canada)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach; USA)
Midsommar (Ari Aster; USA)
1917 (Sam Mendes; UK/USA)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma; France)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Marin Scorsese; USA)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg; UK)
Sunset (László Nemes; Hungary)
N.B.
Of the top 19, I saw 9 in a cinema, 3 on streaming services (Kanopy or Netflix), and 7 via what we'll call "screeners."
Of next 19, the breakdown is 6 in the cinema, 8 on streaming services, 1 purchased on iTunes, and 4 "screeners."
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