2019 Movies I Like or love

Most Dear

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Avengers : Endgame
The Gentlemen
I See You
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Parasite
Toy Story 4
The Two Popes
Us

Honorable mention

1917
Captain Marvel
Ford V Ferrari
Judy
Late Night (Apple TV)
The Lighthouse
Monos
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Spider-man: Far From Home
Troop Zero
Uncut Gems

Best of the rest : all ages

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Onward
Toy Story 4
Troop Zero

Kids

Frozen II
Missing Link

Guilty pleasures

Crawl (Prime)
Ready or Not (HBO)

Wanted to like / overrated / disappointing

Booksmart
High Flying Bird
The Irishman
Shazam!
Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Not great, but worth a once-through

The Aeronauts (Prime)

Disappointing and/or underwhelmed

The Irishman
Joker

Holiday

Want to see

Ad Astra
Always Be My Maybe
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
American Woman
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Self Defense
Atlantics
Blinded by the Light
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Climax
Dark Waters
Doctor Sleep
Dolemite Is My Name
Downton Abbey
Family
Fighting With My Family
Freaks
Hala
Harpoon
High Life
The Highwaymen
The Hole in the Ground
Honey Boy
Hotel Mumbai
Hustlers
Judy & Punch
Just Mercy
The Kid Who Would Be King
The Last Black Man In San Francisco (Prime, doc)
Light of My Life (Prime)
Little Monsters (Hulu)
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (doc)
Meeting Gorbachev (doc, Herzog!)
Memory: The Origins of Alien (doc)
Midsommar (Prime)
Miles Davis: Birth of the cool
The Mustang
The Nightingale (Prime)
Portrait of a Lady On Fire
Plus One (with Jack Quaid)
Queen & Slim
The Report (Prime)
Rocketman
Ruben Brandt, Collector
Rust Creek (Prime)
Skin
The Souvenir
Styx
The Truth (La Verite)
Villains
Waves
Western Stars (Springsteen doc)

——

Back to Film Index by Year

ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2019

Albums

Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
Cage the Elephant - Social Cues
The Futureheads - Powers
The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
Idlewild - Interview Music
UNKLE - The Road: Part II / Lost Highway
Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

Honorable mention

James Arthur - YOU
Charley Crockett - The Valley
Chvrches - Screen Violence
Jeff Lynne’s ELO - Jeff Lynne's ELO - From Out Of Nowhere
Meow Meow & Pink Martini - Hotel Amour
Ravens & Chimes - The Empty House
Harry Styles - Fine Line
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Hawksley Workman - Median Age Wasteland