Julian pays an annual video tribute to the Top 25 films of 2019
2019 was a banner year. Not only was it a hell of a year for movies, but I was honored to fully become a part of the Cinapse team and pursue film criticism in earnest. It’s been amazing covering film this past year, and as I have for the last seven years, I wanted to pay tribute to what I thought were the best films 2019 had to offer. Many of the films featured in this video have inspired wildly diverse reactions and opinions between critics and audiences alike— and I thank Cinapse for the opportunity to join the conversation. Enjoy.
The 25:
- Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
- Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
- Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
- The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
- Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
- Transit (Christian Petzold)
- 1917 (Sam Mendes)
- Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
- Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
- The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
- The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)
- Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- Sunset (László Nemes)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)
- Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler)
- Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
- The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
- Midsommar (Ari Aster)
- Waves (Trey Edward Shults)
- The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
- Ad Astra (James Gray)
- Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Wild Rose (Tom Harper)
Honorable Mentions: Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller), The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns), The Lodge (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala), The Death of Dick Long (Daniel Scheinert), Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis).
If you’d enjoy a stroll down memory lane, please enjoy the last few years of videos below. Thank you for your patronage, as always.
