Tuesday, December 31, 2019

2019 Movie List -- The Top 196 of the Year

THE STANDOUTS (26) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

Marriage Story ***1/2
Wild Rose ***1/2
The Farewell ***1/2
Joker ***1/2
Toy Story 4 ***1/2
The Nightingale ***1/2
Jojo Rabbit ***
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ***
Brittany Runs a Marathon ***
Late Night ***
Blinded by the Light ***
Long Shot ***
Judy ***
Love, Antosha ***
I Lost My Body ***
Arctic ***
Glass ***
Share (HBO) ***
Apollo 11 ***
I Love You, Now Die (HBO) ***
The Peanut Butter Falcon ***
The Platform ***
Ford v. Ferrari ***
1917 ***
Parasite ***
The Two Popes ***


THE GOOD (47) - These represent quality filmmaking all-around.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood ***
Queen & Slim ***
Richard Jewell ***
Just Mercy ***
Uncut Gems ***
Luce ***
Good Boys ***
Scandalous ***
The Mustang ***
Birds of Passage ***
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum ***
Crawl ***
Hustlers ***
Tell Me Who I Am ***
The Aeronauts ***
Clemency ***
Stuber ***
Terminator: Dark Fate ***
Booksmart ***
Honey Boy ***
Always Be My Maybe ***
High Flying Bird ***
Dragged Across Concrete ***
Little Women ***
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil ***
The Kill Team ***
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator ***
The Report ***
The Current War: Directors Cut ***
The Command ***
Fyre Fraud (Hulu) ***
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened ***
Abducted in Plain Sight ***
Cold Case Hammarskjold ***
Fighting With My Family ***
Zombieland 2: Double Tap ***
QT8 ***
The Art of Self Defense ***
Dolemite is My Name ***
Little Monsters ***
The Kid Who Would Be King ***
Savage Youth ***
The Red Sea Diving Resort ***
Where's My Roy Cohn? ***
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary ***
Deadwood: The Movie (HBO) ***
Amazing Grace ***

THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (43) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence, the name of this section.

The Irishman ***
Dark Waters ***
Motherless Brooklyn ***
Rocketman ***
The Last Black Man in San Francisco ***
Les Miserables ***
Portrait of a Lady on Fire ***
El Camino ***
Ma ***
Greta ***
Spider-Man: Far from Home ***
Gemini Man ***
Avengers: Endgame ***
Waves **1/2
Doctor Sleep **1/2
Ready or Not **1/2
The Death of Dick Long **1/2
In the Shadow of the Moon **1/2
Monos **1/2
Hobbs and Shaw **1/2
The Lion King **1/2
Little Woods **1/2
The Public **1/2
Paddleton **1/2
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile **1/2
The Highwaymen **1/2
Trial by Fire **1/2
Dumbo **1/2
Official Secrets **1/2
Hail Satan? **1/2
Jumanji: The Next Level **1/2
Shazam **1/2
The Beach Bum **1/2
Yardie **1/2
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO) **1/2
Them That Follow **1/2
Escape Room **1/2
Captive State **1/2
The Laundromat **1/2
Isn't It Romantic **1/2
The Great Hack **1/2
Sweetheart **1/2
Miss Bala **1/2

THE GUILTY PLEASURES (25) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but I do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.

The Prodigy ***
The Intruder ***
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot ***
Child's Play ***
Brightburn ***
Angel Has Fallen ***
21 Bridges ***
The Dirt ***
3 From Hell ***
Teacher ***
Haunt ***
Trespassers ***
Murder Mystery ***
Between Two Ferns: The Movie ***
F*** You All: The Uwe Boll Story ***
Point Blank **1/2
What Men Want **1/2
Little **1/2
Jexi **1/2
Pokemon Detective Pikachu **1/2
Night Hunter **1/2
Eli **1/2
Sword of Trust **1/2
Trick **
The Fanatic **

THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (44) - Chalk it up to expectations but these movies just didn't cut it for me.

Us **1/2
The Goldfinch **1/2
Ad Astra **1/2
The Good Liar **1/2
The Kitchen **1/2
The Vanishing **1/2
The Lighthouse **1/2
Triple Frontier **1/2
Dark Phoenix **1/2
Godzilla: King of the Monsters **1/2
Pet Sematary **1/2
Black and Blue **1/2
Bombshell **
Midsommar **
Domino **
Cold Pursuit **
Lucy in the Sky **
It: Chapter Two **
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark **
The Golden Glove **
Rattlesnake **
Captain Marvel **
Under the Silver Lake **
Alita: Battle Angel **
Velvet Buzzsaw **
The Perfection **
Knives Out **
Where'd You Go, Bernadette **
The Dead Don't Die **
Charlie Says **
A Vigilante **
Piranhas **
In the Tall Grass **
Wine Country **
Corporate Animals **
Bloodline **
Wounds **
Clifton Hill **
High Life **
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker *1/2
American Son *1/2
A Hidden Life *1/2
Greener Grass *1/2
The Wolf Hour *1/2

THE BAD (11) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.


6 Underground *1/2
Serenity *1/2
Happy Death Day 2U *1/2
Shaft *1/2
Fractured *
Black Christmas *
Villains *
Men in Black: International *
State Like Sleep *
Wrinkles the Clown *
Relaxer (zero stars)

IN PROGRESS (3) - I started watching these but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will.

100% Julian Edelman (30 minutes)
Diego Maradona (30 minutes)
The King (25 minutes)

EMBARGOED (0) - Silence is golden... for now.

DON'T FORGET (7) - I first saw these 2019 movies back in 2018. This list is for me, so I don't forget them.

Hotel Mumbai ***
Lords of Chaos ***
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek ***
Skin ***
Freaks ***
Climax **
In Fabric *1/2

OOPS, I MISSED (106): 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Abominable, The Addams Family, The Aftermath, Aladdin, American Factory, American Woman, Anna, Annabelle Comes Home, Ash Is Purest White, Atlantics, The Banana Splits Movie, The Best of Enemies, Biggest Little Farm, Body at Brighton Rock, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Braid, The Brink, Cats, Charlie's Angels, El Chicano, Close, Countdown, The Curse of La Llorona, Diamantino, Diane, Dogman, A Dog's Journey, Don't Let Go, Downton Abbey, Driven, Earthquake Bird, Everybody Knows, Exit, Fast Color, Framing John DeLorean, Frozen 2, Girl on the Third Floor, Give Me Liberty, Gloria Bell, Hagazussa: The Heathen’s Curse, Hala, Harriet, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, Her Smell, The Hole in the Ground, Hot Air, The Hummingbird Project, The Hustle, IO, I Trapped the Devil, Jacob's Ladder, Just 6.5, Katie Says Goodbye, The Kid, Knock Down the House, Lady and the Tramp, Last Christmas, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Level 16, Light of My Life, Loro, Maiden, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, Mapplethorpe, Memory: The Origins of Alien, Mickey and the Bear, Midnight Family, Midway, Mister America, The Mountain, Noelle, Ophelia, Pain and Glory, The Parts You Lose, Pavarotti, Playing with Fire, Polar, Polaroid, Poms, The Professor, The Professor and the Madman, Rambo: Last Blood, Red Joan, Replicas, Seberg, Semper Fi, Sextuplets, Someone Great, The Sound of Silence, The Souvenir, Spies in Disguise, Starfish, The Sun Is Also a Star, Tall Girl, Tolkien, Tone-Deaf, The Traitor, Transit, Uglydolls, Unicorn Store, The Upside, The White Crow, Wonder Park, Yesterday

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