Best Movies of 2019

This is something I do every year because I really enjoy it. I hope you do too. I'm probably super wrong about everything. I saw about 175 2019 releases, again, just too many for someone who doesn't get paid to do this. In fact I'm someone who pays to do this.

I've missed out on some key releases, some I never got around to (Honeyland, I Lost My Body, Beanpole, Image Book, 3 Faces, The Gospel of Eureka, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, The Chambermaid etc.) some will totally be counting as 2020 releases since they are unavailable on any platform or theatre (Les Misérables, Clemency, Vitalina Varela, Bait etc.). But I saw a lot of the contending movies, so I feel decent about it.

If youv'e ever doubted the way that art reflects the world in which it is made, there are three key themes represented throughout most, if not all, of these movies. My top five happen to all have a theme in common, duty to family vs. duty to self. Whether it's the struggle between marriage and independence, between fortune and loyalty, between cultures, between love and duty, or between which family to honour, it's an interesting theme to come up. There are a couple of themes that have currents in my movies this year, Peterloo, Parasite, Dark Waters, Ad Astra, A Bread Factory, Birds of Passage, The Edge of Democracy, Last Black Man in San Fransisco, An Elephant Sittiing Still, and The Deadwood Movie, all take on capitalism in one fashion or another. We also see the danger of cults through Charlie Says, The Irishman, Midsommar, A Bread Factory, A Hidden Life, Jojo Rabbit, One Child Nation and honestly, if you're the type to see capitalism as a cult, you can marry the two themes easily.

I feel like there haven't been an abundance of great movies this year, around the 12-13 mark, I begin to lose enthusiasm for the movies. There are plenty of good to very good movies, but not as many greats.

Best Picture

1. Little Women Little Women, is about as close to a masterpiece as we can get from this year. Greta Gerwig took the famous and oft retold story and infused it with a new life, sharpening some of the points that have been dulled in other adaptations (*from what I've read about the others). She does this with an incredible cast of performers, and a novel way of telling the story out of chronological order. This allows the film to build to the major emotional events of the story rather than scatter them. It's amazingly brilliant. I loved this movie both times I saw it, it packs an enormous emotional weight and really gets you to love these characters. When I saw it there was an immediate feeling I had that this was the best thing I had seen, and it would be hard pressed to knock it out of #1.

2. Uncut Gems Uncut Gems was everything I hoped it would be and even more. The Safdie Brothers, previously of Good Time and Heaven Knows What, two other brilliant films, have a unique way of giving you the unexpected, the brilliant, and the relentless. That's Uncut Gems. A two hour panic-attack, as you watch Adam Sandler put all of his innate sleaze to good use, hanging on by the skin of his teeth as he kites debts back and forth to keep himself going. It's non-stop, but every element of it feels fleshed out and real. The Safdie's deft Cohen-brothers-esque touch in casting unknowns adds so much texture and a lived in feel to this film.

3. The Farewell Just heartbreaking. I admit I am approaching this as a viewer who is not familiar with the culture, but it's a beautiful insight into at least one family's experiences being divorced from their culture and family, the regrets that come with it. Many people leave their country for a better life, or a life that's better for them, but there's always something left behind. Good or bad, and in this case it's arguably a pretty bad practice, it's there.

4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire I had heard good things and so I was excited that the Sarnia International Film Festival was screening it. I was nor prepared emotionally for this movie. It's a beautiful, beautiful film, visually, emotionally it feels everything deep in it's bones. It's patient and restrained, funny, and brings the romance to burning life.

5. The Irishman Silence was released while I lived in Manitoba. Though Krista was kind enough to make regular trips to Winnipeg to eat sushi and so I could see some movies, Silence was not one I was able to catch. I was crestfallen when Netflix announced it's deal for The Irishman, had I missed Martin Scorsese's final theatrical release? I am glad that Netflix gave it a release, and that some theatres chose to screen it. So I got to see it on the big screen and in all it's glory and I loved it. It's three rip-roaring hours of everything Scorsese does well, and in the end, a painful rumination on mortality.

6. Midsommar After being horrified by Hereditary, I still remember the seance Toni Colette does with her family and have to chase the scene from my mind, I was 100% on board with whatever Ari Aster did next. Add Florence Pugh who was magnificent in Lady MacBeth, and what an anticipated film. Midsommar delivered, though nowhere near the level of horror as Hereditary, it has the same slow-creeping dread combined with beautiful imagery and set design that splashes bright colours onto a monstrosity. Though I have read a lot of criticisms of the film, some that I can't really dismiss, I feel like deep down it's a movie about being unmoored in trauma, trying to attach to anything, and how scary that anything can be.

7. Parasite I thought I learned to expect the unexpected from Bong Joon Ho after Okja, but nope, not all. Parasite is a funny and searing attack on the viciousness and desperation that an 'every-man-for-himself' capitalist structure creates. The way that dream house dominates the film and symbolizes everything to the characters. It's incredible.

8. Avengers: Endgame I loved it. I have like 20 movies worth of emotional investment in this franchise, I enjoy it. The Russos did a phenomenal job of building a coherent and thoroughly enjoyable climax that could have been a complex disaster. I mean look what Star Wars did with far fewer moving pieces and much more narrative freedom.

9. Pain & Glory My first Almodovar film, and one I wasn't really expecting much from. It was kind of an obligation after seeing the praise for it, but that totally didn't let me prepare myself for it. A semi-autobiographical, and deeply felt story of love and loss, it really hit me. Banderas is amazing in a way that I have never seen, everything about him feels different. That movie star charisma is there, but it's visible dormant in his depressed, medically impaired film director character. He manages to push it down and you can just see the weight crushing him.

10. Peterloo I'm a newbie to Mike Leigh too, Mr. Turner was my first experience and I was fascinated. Leight's partially improvised, but heavily worked-through method seems to bring a certain weight of reality to his movies. They feel more real than almost anything I've seen. Peterloo is no different. Though it eschews the deep character work of many of his works in favor of a broader cast of characters, it still manages to crystallize the discontent, fear, and ultimately hope that exists with the disenfranchised. Even if you know what is coming, there's still this beautiful optimism in seeing people stand in solidarity against inequality.

11. For Sama Speaking of standing against anything, For Sama is about some of the bravest people to have ever walked the earth. It follows a small volunteer built hospital run by the filmaker's doctor husband (she was a nurse at the hospital too), in Aleppo before and during the siege, and was one of the last holdouts when the city finally fell to Russian and Assad forces. For all of Uncut Gems' suspense, it cannot match the scene of an emergency c-section and neonatal resuscitation that had me holding my breath and covering my eyes.

12. Her Smell Now that I write this, here's a movie where the long-takes worked! The manic energy backstage of a small music venue as we watch Elizabeth Moss's Becky Something unravel is electric and stomach churning.

13. The Nightingale Speaking of stomach churning, Jennifer Kent's followup to The Babadook, has some truly horrific scenes, but it's a revenge story over all, and one could argue it doesn't cover enough new ground to be anything special, but I disagree. The dehumanizing racism of Colonialism is on full display, and though our protagonist is a white woman, and she does finally befriend an aboriginee tracker, it feels more honest and earned. It doesn't stink of the dated trope of people of colour sacrificing themselves for white approval. Their friendship is slowly built out of mutual respect and pain, but it's not immediate. Baykali Ganambarr's wonderfully played Billi disappears at the slightest hint of danger, and takes most of the movie to finally befriend the colonizer. It's harsh, beautiful, and brilliant.

14. Jojo Rabbit Courting controversy all the way some people have been put off by Taika Waititi's takedown of nazi Germany. I feel that he is able to combine the heart and humour with some of the terror and reality of those times effectively enough to get the message across. The Stephen Merchant gestapo scene is a fine example of how scary things can be, and it's not even diminished by a terrific joke that lampoons the cult of personality that is the fertilizer fascism spreads from. Plus who doesn't love Archie Yates? He's fucking great. Put him in everything. Right now.

15. Dark Waters To bring up stomach churning again, I felt physically ill after this movie. Todd Haynes takes a very basic procedural script and imbues it with all of the dread and darkness the story deserves. Anne Hathaway is done a huge disservice with the 'long suffering wife' role that is written at Lifetime Network levels, but it's the only real flaw. The lack of resolution keeps the sick feeling floating, and hopefully turns it to a useful anger.

16. Doctor Sleep One of two long Stephen King sequel adaptations this year, and even-though I liked It: Chapter 2 a whole lot, Doctor Sleep is so crazy and out there it edges it into the top 20. Aided by great performances from the entire cast, with the reliable Rebecca Ferguson being fearsome and vulnerable in a brilliant turn, it is first rate horror. When the Shinning sequel crowds in it feels a little perfunctory, and there's a horrific scene that is maybe over the line, but otherwise it's fantastic.

17. A Bread Factory Part 1 What a weird little thing this two part film series is. How did it get made? How does it exist? It's a charming little story of a small arts group in a small town trying to save the arts program housed in their historic bread factory. Filled with mostly unknowns and non-professionals, the performances can be hit and miss, but it kind of adds to the charm. This dying local arts program struggling to survive against a big corporatized modern art program, and how these much maligned and much underfunded programs can mean to people, really hits home.

18. A Hidden Life Malick returns to the closest to form he's been since Tree of Life. It's unnecessarily long, and almost too subdued and anti-dramatic, but it is, of course, gorgeous, and has a vital and current message about standing against Facism at all cost. James Newton Howard's score is beautiful, and really you could just sit and watch the camera work with that score and be good.

19. Charlie Says One of multiple Charlie Manson related media products this year, I feel Charlie Says is the best. Matt Smith, usually not good, takes all of the creepy otherness that makes him an effective alien doctor, and uses it to make a man not meant for this species. But he real power is in the women it follows and the cycles of abuse that trapped them. It's riveting, frightening, and brilliant.

20. One Child Nation Shocking and fascinating at every turn. The existence of the one-child policy was part of the general knowledge of my childhood, but learning about it, and the resulting horror and corruption, in detail is edifying and heartbreaking. The threat of authoritarianism and the 'go-along, get-along' attitude are laid bare. What regular people are willing to do if they can displace responsibility.

Honourable Mentions: Birds of Passage, Donbass, Booksmart, It: Chapter 2, Ad Astra, The Edge of Democracy, Diane, Knives Out, Us, Honey Boy, The Report, Wild Rose, The Souvenir, The Peanut Butter Falcon, An Elephant Sitting Still (Reflecting on Existence), The Deadwood Movie, The Last Black Man in San Fransisco, Black Mother

Best Lead Actress

1. Saoirse Ronan - Little Women

2. Florence Pugh - Midsommar

3. Awkwafina - The Farewell

4. Elizabeth Moss - Her Smell

5. Lupita Nyong'o - Us

6. Noémie Merlant - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

7. Adéle Haenele - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

8. Renee Zellweger - Judy

9. Mary Kay Place - Diane

10. Nahéma Ricci - Antigone

Honourable Mentions (in no particular order): Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose | Tap Zhao – Ash is the Purest White | Honor Swinton Byrne – The Souvenir | Marianne Jean-Baptiste – In Fabric | Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein – Booksmart | Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story | Tyne Daily – A Bread Factory Part 2 | Aisling Franciosi – The Nightingale | Victoria Carmen Sonne – Holiday | Seana Kerslake – The Hole in the Ground | Keira Knightley – Official Secrets | Zoe Margaret Colletti – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Imogen Waterhouse – Braid | Kacey Rohl – White Lie | Kyliegh Curran – Doctor Sleep | Julianne Moore – Gloria Bell | Emma Thompson – Late Night | Clara Rugaard – I Am Mother | and Samantha Mugatsia – Rafiki

Best Lead Actor

1. Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory

2. Adam Driver - Marriage Story

3. Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems

4. Kang-ho Song - Parasite

5. Joaquin Phoenix - Joker

6. Mattias Schoenartz - Mustang

7. Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes

8. Brad Pitt - Ad Astra

9. Paul Walter Hauser - Richard Jewell

10. Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Honourable Mentions (in no particular order): Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Andrew Garfield – Under the Silver Lake | Robert Pattinson – The Lighthouse | Noah Jupe – Honey Boy | Robert DeNiro – The Irishman | Chris Galust – Give Me Liberty | Fan Liao – Ash is the Purest White | Jimmy Fails – The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Neil Maskell – Happy New Year Colin Burstead | Mads Mikkelsen – Arctic | James Badge Dale – Standoff at Sparrow Creek | Andre Holland – High Flying Bird | Taron Edgerton – Rocketman | Zack Efron - Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile | Marchánt Davis - The Day Shall Come | Dev Patel – Hotel Mumbai | Adam Driver – The Dead Don’t Die | Matthew McConaughey – The Beach Bum | and Eddie Murphy - Dolemite is My Name

Best Supporting Actress

1. Florence Pugh - Little Women

2. Zhao Shuzhen - The Farewell

3. Rebecca Ferguson - Doctor Sleep

4. Carmiña Martínez - Birds of Passage

5. Laura Dern - Little Women

6. Taylor Russell - Waves

7. Thomasin McKenzie - Jojo Rabbit

8. Penelope Cruz - Pain & Glory

9. Laura Dern - Marriage Story

10. Lorraine Toussaint - Fast Colour

Honourable Mentions (in no particular order): Julia Fox – Uncut Gems | Eliza Scanlen – Little Women | Logan Browning – The Perfection | Paula Malcolmson – The Deadwood Movie | Diana Lin – The Farewell | Gayle Rankin and Agyness Deyn – Her Smell | Maxine Peake – Gwen | Margot Robbie – Bombshell | So-dam Park – Parasite | Estelle Parsons and Deirdre O'Connell – Diane | Jamie Lee Curtis and Toni Collette – Knives Out | Sophie Okonedo – Wild Rose | Julie Walters – Wild Rose | Shahadi Wright Joseph – Us | Billie Lourd – Booksmart | Meera Gantra – Blinded by the Light | Millie Bobbie Brown and Vera Farmiga– Godzilla: King of the Monsters (they were the only humans with any weight to their presence)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Joe Pesci - The Irishman

2. Tom Burke - The Souvenir

3. Timothée Chalamet - Little Women

4. John Turturro - Gloria Bell

5. Al Pacino - The Irishman

6. Shia Leboeuf - Honey Boy

7. Willem Dafoe - The Lighthouse

8. Sterling K. Brown - Waves

9. Christian Bale - Ford vs. Ferrari

10. Wesley Snipes - Dolemite is my Name

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Alan Alda – Marriage Story | Bayjaku Gabanvarr and Sam Claflin – The Nightingale | Yongbo Jiang, Tzi Ma,and Han Chen – The Farewell | Sun-kyun Lee – Parasite | Wendell Pierce – Burning Cane | Jonathan Majors – The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Sam Rockwell – Richard Jewell | Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, and Gerald Raney – The Deadwood Movie | Chris Hemsworth - Avengers: Endgame | John Lithgow – Bombshell | Zahn McClarnon – Doctor Sleep | Daniel Craig, Michael Shannon, and Don Johnson – Knives Out | Eric Bogosian – Uncut Gems | Kulvinder Ghir – Blinded by the Light | Jamie Bell and Richard Madden – Rocketman | Taika Waititi | Sam Rockwell | and Stephen Merchant – Jojo Rabbit | Jake Gyllenhaal and Jacob Batalon – Spiderman 2: Far From Home | Ben Affleck – Triple Frontier | Eric Stoltz – Her Smell | Jon Lithgow – Late Night | Charles Dance and Sam Riley – Happy New Year Colin Burstead

Best Director

1. Greta Gerwig - Little Women

2. Celine Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

3. Benny and Josh Safdie - Uncut Gems

4. Lulu Wang - The Farewell

5. Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

6. Bong Joon Ho - Parasite

7. Ari Aster - Midsommar

8. Pedro Almodovar - Pain & Glory

9. Anthony and Joe Russo - Avengers: Endgame

10. Alex Ross Perry - Her Smell

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Todd Haynes - Dark Waters | Mary Harron - Charlie Says | Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale | Olivia Wilde – BookSmart | Mike Flanagan - Doctor Sleep | Patrick Wang – A Bread Factory Part 1 & 2 | Tilman Singer – Luz | Alejandro Landes – Monos | Terrence Malick – A Hidden Life| Kent Jones – Diane | William McGregor – Gwen | Jordan Peele – Us | Joanna Hogg – The Souvenir | Claire Denis – High Life | Tom Harper – Wild Rose | Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra - Birds of Passage | James Grey - Ad Astra | Andy Muschietti - It: Chapter 2 | David Robert Mitchell - Under the Silver Lake

Best Original Screenplay

1. Ronald Bronstein, Benny, and Josh Safdie - Uncut Gems

2. Lulu Wang - The Farewell

3. Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won - Parasite

4. Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

5. Ari Aster - Midsommar

6. Pedro Almodovar - Pain & Glory

7. Alex Ross Perry - Her Smell

8. Patrick Wang - A Bread Factory Part 1

9. Bo Hu - An Elephant Sitting Still

10. Kent Jones - Diane

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman – Booksmart | Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale, James Gray and Ethan Gross - Ad Astra | Jimmy Fails, Joe Talbot, and Rob Richert, Aaron Schimberg – Chained for Life | Alice Austen, Kirill Mikhanovsky – Give Me Liberty | And then We Danced – Levan Akin | Joanna Hogg – The Souvenir | Jordan Peele – Us | Nicole Taylor – Wild Rose | Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos – Monos | Claire Denis – High Life | Lee Cronin and Stephen Shields – The Hole in the Ground | and William McGregor – Gwen | Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal - Birds of Passage | Sergey Loznitsa - Donbass | Tillman Singer - Luz

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Greta Gerwig - Little Women

2. Steven Zaillian - The Irishman

3. Taika Waititi - Jojo Rabbit

4. Anthony and Joe Russo - Avengers: Endgame

5. Guinevere Turner - Charlie Says

6. Lorene Scarafia - Hustlers

7. Mike Flanagan - Doctor Sleep

8. Madeleine Olnek – Wild Nights with Emily

9. Alice Johnson Boher and Sebastian Lelio - Gloria Bell

10. Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers – Spiderman: Far From Home

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Gary Dauberman - It: Chapter 2 | Scott Z. Burns – The Report | Anthony McCarten - The Two Popes

Best Achievement in Cinematography

1. Pawel Pogorzelski - Midsommar

2. Claire Mathon - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

3. Yorick Le Saux - Little Women

4. Darius Kondji - Uncut Gems

5. Jarin Blaschke - The Lighthouse

6. Rodrigo Prieto - The Irishman

7. Jasper Wolf - Monos

8. Hoyte van Hoytema - Ad Astra

9. Roger Deakins - 1917

10. Kyung-pyo Hong - Parasite

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Trent Opaloch – Avengers: Endgame | David Raedeker – The Souvenir, José Luis Alcaine – Pain and Glory, Mihai Malamaire Jr. – Jojo Rabbit, Radek Ladczuk – The Nightingale, Michael Fimognari – Doctor Sleep, Tat Radcliffe – Queen & Slim, Roger Deakins – The Goldfinch, Drew Daniels – Waves, Anna Franquesa Solano – The Farewell, Paul Faltz – Luz, Adam Etherington – Gwen, Sean Price Williams – Her Smell, Steve Yedlin – Knives Out, Jason McCormick – Booksmart, Matthew J. Lloyd – Spider-Man: Far From Home, Tom Comerford – The Hole in the Ground, Chao Fan - An Elephant Sitting Still, Todd Banhazl – Braid, Seamus McGarvey – Greta, Jackson Hunt – Standoff at Sparrow Creek, and George Richmond – Rocketman

Best Editing

1. Nick Houy - Little Women

2. Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie - Uncut Gems

3. Thelma Schoonmaker - The Irishman

4. Lucian Johnson - Midsommar

5. Leigh Folsom Boyd and Dan Lebenstal - Spider-Man: Far From Home

6. Julien lacheray - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

7. Teresa Font - Pain and Glory

8. Mike Flanagan - Doctor Sleep

9. Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt - Avengers: Endgame

10. Evan Schiff - John Wick 3: Parabellum

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Bob Ducsay - Knives Out, Chris Dickens - Rocketman| Jamie Gross - Booksmart | Robert Greene - Her Smell | Simon Njoo - The Nightingale |Fabian Podeszwa and Tilman Singer - Luz

Best Costume

1. Little Women

2. 1917

3. Midsommar

4. Peterloo

5. The Irishman

6. The Nightingale

7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

8. Birds of Passage

9. Uncut gems

10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Judy, Avengers: Endgame, Jojo Rabbit, The Deadwood Movie, The Two Popes, Rocketman, Dolemite is my Name, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Doctor Sleep, and I am Mother

Best Hair and Make-Up

1. Little Women

2. 1917

3. The Irishman

4. Uncut Gems

5. Peterloo

6. The Deadwood Movie

7. The Lighthouse

8. The Nightingale

9. Monos

10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Birds of Passage, Sunset, Bombshell, Doctor Sleep, Honey Boy, Judy, Jojo Rabbit, Midsommar, Joker, Avengers: Endgame, Parasite, It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Dark Waters

Best Original Score

1. Alexandre Desplat - Little Women

2. Alex Weston - The Farewell

3. Bobby Krlic - Midsommar

4. Emile Mosseri - The Last Black Man in San Fransisco

5. James Newton Howard - A Hidden Life

6. Jung Jaeil - Parasite

7. Leonardo Heiblum - Birds of Passage

8. Michael Abels - Us

9. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Joker

10. Alan Silvestri - Avengers: Endgame

Honourable Mentions (no particular order): Mark Korven - The Lighthouse, Max Richter - Ad Astra | Micah Levi - Monos | Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems| John Williams - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker| Nathan Johnson - Knives Out | Bear McCreary - Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Disasterpeace - Under the Silver Lake | Michael Giacchino - Spiderman: Far From Home and Jojo Rabbit | Jed Kurzel - The Nightingale

Best Use of Non-Original Music

1. Booksmart

2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

3. The Farewell

4. The Irishman

5. Blinded By The Light

6. Rocketman

7. Gloria Bell

8. Wild Rose

9. Judy

10. Avengers: Endgame

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): The Beach Bum

Best Visual Effects

1. 1917

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. Ad Astra

4. Spiderman: Far From Home

5. Doctor Sleep

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): Ford vs. Ferrari, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, It: Chapter 2, Fast Colour, Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Best Sound Design and Editing

1. Ford vs. Ferrari

2. Avengers: Endgame

3. The Irishman

4. Ad Astra

5. Midsommar

Honourable Mention (in no particular order): The Lighthouse, Judy, Luz, In Fabric, High Life, Waves, Doctor Sleep, Spiderman: Far from Home, The Hole in the Ground, It: Chapter 2, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Nightingale, and Parasite

Some Good Genre Movies:

Best Horror Movies of 2019

1. Midsommar

2. Doctor Sleep

3. It: Chapter 2

4. Us

5. Luz

6. The Hole in the Ground

7. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

8. Crawl

9. Escape Room

10. Gwen

Best Comedies of 2019

1. Jojo Rabbit

2. Knives Out

3. Booksmart

4. Dolemite is my Name

5. The Peanut Butter Falcon

6. The Day Shall Come

7. Give Me Liberty

8. Stuber

9. Blinded by the Light

10. Good Boys

Best Documentary

1. For Sama

2. One Child Nation

3. American Factory

4. The Edge of Democracy

5. Hail, Satan! (good documentary, but it's propaganda for a very iffy organization)

6. Knock Down the House

7. Jawline

8. Leaving Neverland

9. The Rolling Thunder Review

10. The Brink

My best of the decade should be out by the end of the month!