There wasn't much time available in which to put this together, and ideally I would have liked to have scribbled a little bit about each entry. Instead, if I've written about a film on either this site or Letterboxd, then the film's title will be a clickable link which will take you to the relevant review. I have a terrible feeling I've forgotten at least one really important film in this list, and I'm also slightly annoyed that I couldn't squeeze in Robert Rodriguez's Alita: Battle Angel, which nonetheless deserves a mention as the best of the rest. So, in no order other than alphabetical, here are my picks of 2019:
La Belle Époque (Nicolas Bedos)
By the Grace of God (François Ozon)
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan)
For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts)
Ghost Town Anthology (Denis Côté)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
Jeanne (Bruno Dumont)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Monos (Alejandro Landes)
On a Magical Night (Christophe Honoré)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (Martin Scorsese)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (J. J. Abrams)
La vérité si je mens! Les débuts (Michel Munz, Gérard Bitton)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
That's it for this year! See you in 2020 - have a great Christmas! 🎄
DA
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