Best Movies of 1939
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The Wizard of OzHollywood's most watched film earns every viewing: a clean, frightening, funny fable, and a sepia door that opens onto Technicolor.Read the review
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonCapra's civics lesson is corn with a knife in it, and James Stewart's hoarse, exhausted filibuster is the performance that made him a star.
Gone with the WindHollywood's grandest spectacle, carried by Vivien Leigh, and a Lost Cause fantasy about slavery that no amount of Technicolor can wash out.