At long last, my favorite movies of 2019:
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
- Ad Astra
- The Lighthouse
- Our Time
- Marriage Story
- Pain and Glory
- The Irishman
- Climax
- Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
- The Souvenir
- Uncut Gems
- Her Smell
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- The Beach Bum
- Wild Nights with Emily
- Under the Silver Lake
- Chained for Life
- Synonyms
- High Life
- The Laundromat
- The Dead Don’t Die
- Gloria Bell
- Parasite
- Diane
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
- The Nightingale
- The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
- Dogman
- Black Mother
- In the Aisles
- The Image Book
- Asako I & II
- Midsommar
- Toy Story 4
- Los Reyes
- Little Women
- The Kingmaker
- Everybody Knows
- Luz
- Transit
- Pasolini
- Diamantino
- Varda by Agnès
- Apollo 11
- Sunset
- Non-Fiction
- Aniara
- Mickey and the Bear
- Rojo
- 63 Up
- The Art of Self-Defense
- América
- Woman at War
- The Farewell
- I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
- For Sama
- 6 Underground
- Delightmare of the Year #1: Serenity
- Delightmare of the Year #2: Cats
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
- Working Woman
- The Mustang
- Fyre
- Cold Case Hammarskjöld
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Framing John DeLorean
- Braid
- Perfect Strangers
- Dragged Across Concrete
- Relaxer
- Loro
- At War
- The Good Liar
- The Chambermaid
- The Third Wife
- Tito and the Birds
- Ruben Brandt, Collector
- The Third Wife
- Ramen Shop
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- End of the Century
- Les Misérables
- Invisible Life
- The Fall of the American Empire
- Charlie Says
- Pig
- Knife + Heart
- Knives Out
- Us
- The Two Popes
- Birds of Passage
- The Plagiarists
- The Golden Glove
- Dark Waters
- Ash Is Purest White
- All Is True
- The Wild Pear Tree
- Grass
- Peterloo
- 1917
- Ip Man 4: The Finale
- Domino
- Never Grow Old
- Plus One
- Runner-Up Delightmare: The Poison Rose
DOCUMENTARY CUM LAUDE
- Wrestle
- Midnight Traveler
- The Competition
- The Disappearance of My Mother
- Island of the Hungry Ghosts
- Walking on Water
- Meeting Gorbachev
- Carmine Street Guitars
- Mike Wallace Is Here
- American Factory
- Screwball
- Hail Satan?
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
- 5B
- Citizen K
- The Biggest Little Farm
- Maiden
- Combat Obscura
- The Edge of Democracy
- Knock Down the House
- The Hottest August
- Midnight Family
OUT-OF-CONTENTION, WORTH A WATCH