# The best movies of 2019

Metacritic's best-reviewed films of 2019, the year Parasite made Oscar history, plus the titles most cited in critics' top-ten lists.

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- Sep 20, 2020 · Jenna T.
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## Top 12

1. **Parasite** (40 · ▲44 ▼4) — Bong Joon-ho. Metascore 96; Palme d'Or and the first non-English Best Picture Oscar.
2. **Portrait of a Lady on Fire** (32 · ▲34 ▼2) — Céline Sciamma. A painter and her subject in 18th-century Brittany; Metascore 95.
3. **The Souvenir** (30 · ▲33 ▼3) — Joanna Hogg. A film student and a toxic relationship in 1980s London; Metascore 92.
4. **The Irishman** (30 · ▲30 ▼0) — Martin Scorsese. De Niro, Pacino and Pesci over half a century of mob history; Metascore 94.
5. **Marriage Story** (28 · ▲30 ▼2) — Noah Baumbach. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver divorcing; Laura Dern won the Oscar; Metascore 93.
6. **Pain and Glory** (20 · ▲21 ▼1) — Pedro Almodóvar. Antonio Banderas as his alter ego, Best Actor at Cannes; Metascore 88.
7. **Once Upon a Time in Hollywood** (16 · ▲20 ▼4) — Quentin Tarantino. DiCaprio, Pitt and the Los Angeles of 1969; Brad Pitt won the Oscar.
8. **Little Women** (15 · ▲20 ▼5) — Greta Gerwig. Saoirse Ronan as Jo March; Metascore 90.
9. **Uncut Gems** (14 · ▲17 ▼3) — Josh and Benny Safdie. Adam Sandler as a gambling-addicted New York jeweller; Metascore 89.
10. **Apollo 11** (7 · ▲15 ▼8) — Todd Douglas Miller. A documentary built only from 1969 archive footage, some never seen before; Metascore 88.
11. **The Farewell** (7 · ▲13 ▼6) — Lulu Wang. A family hides a grandmother's terminal diagnosis from her; Metascore 89.
12. **Jojo Rabbit** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — Taika Waititi's 2019 satire about a Hitler Youth boy whose imaginary friend is Hitler; Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
13. **For Sama** (5 · ▲12 ▼7) — Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts. A mother films five years in besieged Aleppo; Metascore 89.
14. **Knives Out** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — Rian Johnson's 2019 whodunit with Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc.

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