At long last, my favorite movies of 2019:

SUMMA CUM LAUDE

1. Ad Astra 
2. The Lighthouse
3. Our Time
4. Marriage Story
5. Pain and Glory
6. The Irishman
7. Climax
8. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
9. The Souvenir 
10. Uncut Gems 
11. Her Smell
12. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 
13. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
14. The Beach Bum 
15. Wild Nights with Emily
16. Under the Silver Lake
17. Chained for Life
18. Synonyms
19. High Life
20. The Laundromat
21. The Dead Don’t Die
22. Gloria Bell
23. Parasite
24. Diane
25. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
26. The Nightingale
27. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
28. Dogman
29. Black Mother
30. In the Aisles
31. The Image Book
32. Asako I & II
33. Midsommar
34. Toy Story 4
35. Los Reyes
36. Little Women
37. The Kingmaker 
38. Everybody Knows
39. Luz
40. Transit
41. Pasolini
42. Diamantino
43. Varda by Agnès
44. Apollo 11
45. Sunset
46. Non-Fiction 
47. Aniara 
48. Mickey and the Bear
49. Rojo
50. 63 Up
51. The Art of Self-Defense
52. América
53. Woman at War
54. The Farewell
55. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
56. For Sama
57. 6 Underground 
58. Delightmare of the Year #1: Serenity
59. Delightmare of the Year #2: Cats

MAGNA CUM LAUDE

1. Working Woman
2. The Mustang 
3. Fyre
4. Cold Case Hammarskjöld
5. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
6. Framing John DeLorean
7. Braid
8. Perfect Strangers
9. Dragged Across Concrete
10. Relaxer
11. Loro
12. At War
13. The Good Liar
14. The Chambermaid
15. The Third Wife
16. Tito and the Birds
17. Ruben Brandt, Collector
18. The Third Wife
19. Ramen Shop
20. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
21. End of the Century
22. Les Misérables
23. Invisible Life 
24. The Fall of the American Empire
25. Charlie Says
26. Pig
27. Knife + Heart
28. Knives Out
29. Us
30. The Two Popes
31. Birds of Passage
32. The Plagiarists
33. The Golden Glove
34. Dark Waters
35. Ash Is Purest White
36. All Is True
37. The Wild Pear Tree
38. Grass
39. Peterloo
40. 1917
41. Ip Man 4: The Finale
42. Domino
43. Never Grow Old
44. Plus One 
45. Runner-Up Delightmare: The Poison Rose

DOCUMENTARY CUM LAUDE

1. Wrestle
2. Midnight Traveler
3. The Competition
4. The Disappearance of My Mother
5. Island of the Hungry Ghosts
6. Walking on Water
7. Meeting Gorbachev
8. Carmine Street Guitars
9. Mike Wallace Is Here
10. American Factory
11. Screwball
12. Hail Satan?
13. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
14. 5B
15. Citizen K
16. The Biggest Little Farm
17. Maiden
18. Combat Obscura
19. The Edge of Democracy
20. Knock Down the House
21. The Hottest August
22. Midnight Family

OUT-OF-CONTENTION, WORTH A WATCH

1. Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated
2. Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary
3. Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
4. Jesus Is King