Best Movies of 2019
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
ParasiteA perfect con movie that rings a doorbell at the midpoint and becomes something far worse.Read the review
The IrishmanScorsese's last word on the gangster picture is an actuarial one: what a life of usefulness actually costs.
Once Upon a Time in HollywoodTarantino's most relaxed film and his saddest, a hangout picture about being replaced.
Ford v FerrariA big studio crowd pleaser made with real craft, and the racing sequences are genuinely thrilling.
JokerPhoenix is extraordinary; the film around him is a very good copy of two better ones.
The KingA handsome, muted Henry V that trades Shakespeare's language for mud and doubt, and loses more than it gains.
Portrait of a Lady on FireA love story built entirely out of looking, where the returned gaze is the plot turn.
Marriage StoryTwo decent people behaving badly under legal pressure, and the machinery that makes them do it.
Little WomenGerwig cuts the novel's two halves against each other, so every childhood scene is remembered from inside a disappointment.
The Two PopesJonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins turn an imagined conversation between popes into a warm, funny two-hander; the flashbacks to Argentina are dutiful.