2019

Ad Astra

USA
James Gray

Lists: Film Comment (20, 2019)

Festivals: Venice (In Competition, 2019)

American Factory

USA
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Lists: New York Times (8 - Dargis, 2019)

Festivals: Sundance (US Documentary Competition, 2019)

Atlantics

Atlantique
France, Senegal, Belgium
Mati Diop

Lists: Film Comment (5, 2019) | New York Times (10 - Scott, 2019) | Sight & Sound (7, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2019)

Bait

UK
Mark Jenkin

Lists: Film Comment (8 - Undistributed, 2019) | Sight & Sound (8, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019)

Belonging

Aidiyet
Turkey, Canada, France
Burak Çevik

Lists: Film Comment (9 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019)

Bird Island

L'Île aux oiseaux
Switzerland
Sergio da Costa, Maya Kosa

Lists: Film Comment (16 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Locarno (Filmmakers of the Present, 2019)

The Devil Between the Legs

El Diablo entre las Piernas
Mexico
Arturo Ripstein

Lists: Film Comment (20 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Toronto (Masters, 2019)

The Edge of Democracy

Brazil
Petra Costa

Lists: New York Times (8 - Scott, 2019)

Festivals: Sundance (World Cinema Documentary Competition, 2019)

Endless Night

Longa noite
Spain
Eloy Enciso Cachafeiro

Lists: Film Comment (2 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2019) | New York (Projections, 2019) | Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2020) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2019)

For Sama

UK, Syria
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

Lists: Sight & Sound (15, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings, 2019)

Heimat Is a Space in Time

Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
Germany, Austria
Thomas Heise

Lists: Cinema Scope (6, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019) | New York (Projections, 2019) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2019)

Honeyland

North Macedonia
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov

Lists: New York Times (1 - Scott, 2019)

Festivals: Sundance (World Cinema Documentary Competition, 2019)

Hustlers

USA
Lorena Scafaria

Lists: Sight & Sound (19, 2019)

Festivals: Toronto (Gala Presentations)

I Was at Home, But…

Ich war zuhause, aber
Germany, Serbia
Angela Schanelec

Lists: Cinema Scope (1, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Masters, 2019)

The Irishman

USA
Martin Scorsese

Lists: Cinema Scope (10, 2019) | Film Comment (2, 2019) | New York Times (2 - Dargis / 4 - Scott, 2019) | Sight & Sound (3, 2019)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Opening Night, 2019)

It Must Be Heaven

France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Palestine, Turkey
Elia Suleiman

Lists: Film Comment (12 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | Toronto (Masters, 2019)

Just 6.5

Metri shesho nim
Iran
Saeed Roustaee

Lists: Film Comment (15 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2020) | Venice (Horizons, 2019)

Just Don't Think I'll Scream

Ne croyez surtout pas que je hurle
France
Frank Beauvais

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019)

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

USA
Joe Talbot

Lists: New York Times (10 - Dargis, 2019)

Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2019) | Sundance (US Dramatic Competition, 2019)

Liberté

France, Portugal, Spain
Albert Serra

Lists: Cinema Scope (5, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Rotterdam (Signatures, 2020) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2019)

The Lighthouse

Canada, USA
Robert Eggers

Lists: Sight & Sound (17, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2019) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2020) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019)

Lina From Lima

Lina de Lima
Chile, Argentina, Peru
María Paz González

Lists: Film Comment (19 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Toronto (Discovery, 2019)

Little Women

USA
Greta Gerwig

Lists: New York Times (4 - Dargis / 6 - Scott, 2019)

Marriage Story

USA
Noah Baumbach

Lists: Film Comment (11, 2019) | New York Times (5 - Scott, 2019) | Sight & Sound (14, 2019)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Centerpiece, 2019) | Telluride (2019) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019) | Venice (In Competition, 2019)

Martin Eden

Italy, France
Pietro Marcello

Lists: Cinema Scope (3, 2019) | Sight & Sound (20, 2019)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Platform, 2019) | Venice (In Competition, 2019)

Midnight in Paris

USA
James Blagden, Roni Moore

Lists: Film Comment (10 - Undistributed, 2019)

Midsommar

USA
Ari Aster

Lists: Sight & Sound (16, 2019)

Monos

Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay
Alejandro Landes

Lists: Sight & Sound (13, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2019) | Sundance (World Cinema Dramatic Competition, 2019)

MS Slavic 7

Canada
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell

Lists: Film Comment (4 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019)

No Data Plan

USA
Miko Revereza

Lists: Film Comment (11 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2019)

Oh Mercy!

Roubaix, une lumière
France
Arnaud Desplechin

Lists: Film Comment (6 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019)

Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

USA
Quentin Tarantino

Lists: Cinema Scope (8, 2019) | Film Comment (3, 2019) | New York Times (5 - Dargis / 9 - Scott, 2019) | Sight & Sound (4, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2019)

One Child Nation

China, USA
Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang

Lists: New York Times (9 - Dargis, 2019)

Festivals: Sundance (US Documentary Competition, 2019)

Pain and Glory

Dolor y gloria
Spain
Pedro Almodóvar

Lists: Film Comment (9, 2019) | New York Times (1 - Dargis, 2019) | Sight & Sound (6, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Telluride (2019) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019)

Parasite

Gisaengchung
South Korea
Bong Joon-ho

Lists: Cinema Scope (7, 2019) | Film Comment (1, 2019) | New York Times (3 - Dargis / 3 - Scott, 2019) | Sight & Sound (2, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | Locarno (Histoire(s) du cinéma, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Telluride (2019) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019)

Peterloo

UK
Mike Leigh

Lists: New York Times (7 - Scott, 2019)

Festivals: Telluride (2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2018) | Venice (In Competition, 2018)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
France
Céline Sciamma

Lists: Film Comment (19, 2019) | Sight & Sound (5, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Telluride (2019) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019)

Present.Perfect.

Wan mei xian zai shi
USA, Hong Kong
Shengze Zhu

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2019) | Film Comment (5 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Rotterdam (Tiger Competition, 2019)

So Pretty

USA, France
Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli

Lists: Film Comment (14 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019)

The Souvenir

UK
Joanna Hogg

Lists: Film Comment (6, 2019) | New York Times (2 - Scott, 2019) | Sight & Sound (1, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2019) | Sundance (World Cinema Dramatic Competition, 2019)

State Funeral

Gosudarstvennyye pokhorony
Netherlands, Lithuania
Sergei Loznitsa

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2019) | Film Comment (1 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: New York (Spotlight on Documentary, 2019) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2019) | Venice (Out of Competition, 2019)

Synonyms

Synonymes
France, Israel, Germany
Nadav Lapid

Lists: Cinema Scope (9, 2019) | Film Comment (15, 2019) | New York Times (6 - Dargis, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2019)

To the Ends of the Earth

Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari
Japan, Uzbekistan, Qatar
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Lists: Film Comment (3 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Masters, 2019)

Tommaso

Italy
Abel Ferrara

Lists: Film Comment (7 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings, 2019)

The Traitor

Il traditore
Italy
Marco Bellocchio

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Masters, 2019)

Transit

Germany, France
Christian Petzold

Lists: Cinema Scope (4, 2018) | Film Comment (4, 2019) | New York Times (7 - Dargis, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2018) | New York (Main Slate, 2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2018)

Uncut Gems

USA
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Lists: Cinema Scope (4, 2019) | Film Comment (10, 2019) | Sight & Sound (12, 2019)

Festivals: New York (Special Events, 2019) | Telluride (2019) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019)

Us

USA
Jordan Peele

Lists: Film Comment (17, 2019) | Sight & Sound (9, 2019)

Vitalina Varela

Portugal
Pedro Costa

Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2019) | Sight & Sound (10, 2019)

Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Rotterdam (Signatures, 2020) | Sundance (New Frontier, 2020) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2019)

Wasp Network

France, Spain, Brazil
Olivier Assayas

Lists: Film Comment (13 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2019) | Venice (In Competition, 2019)

What We Left Unfinished

USA, Afghanistan, Qatar
Mariam Ghani

Lists: Film Comment (17 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2019)

You Will Die at Twenty

Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Amjad Abu Alala

Lists: Film Comment (18 - Undistributed, 2019)

Festivals: Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2019) | Venice (Venice Days, 2019)

Zombi Child

France
Bertrand Bonello

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2019)

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2019) | New York (Main Slate, 2019) | Toronto (Masters, 2019)