| So Christopher Nolan sets a thunderous pace, as if he wants to obliterate interstitials and deliver pure cinema. | Hao Zheng, Here are the best movies of 2019 to watch, from crowd-pleasing blockbusters to … The inscrutable, skin-scrawling existential angst and romance tied to the ideas of loving and being loved is at the center of Charlie Kaufman’s latest film. Ryôko Hirosue, | | Charlton Heston, Frank Finlay, | | Amir Farrokh Hashemian, A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. SHARE. | A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. – Ryan S. A film that premiered all the way back at Berlin 2019, spent over a year exclusively on the festival circuit, and was released on streaming two months into the pandemic, where it may have received more coverage than it would’ve otherwise. Viola Davis anchors as the obstinate blues icon, who manages to command both on and offscreen. 42,293 ‘E.T. David Carradine, 2019 gifted us a bounty of audacious dramas, documentaries, comedies, thrillers and action-adventures. Manivel’s ability to convey how art can capture and transmit the intangible and experiential is something to behold. Paul Sanchez, My personal wait for the great Mr. Sallitt’s fifth feature was even longer: from precisely after the final shot of The Unspeakable Act. | Stars: After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. Marlon Brando, Goya Toledo, – Zhuo-Ning Su, 40. Liam Neeson, 103 min Lee Van Cleef, As we grapple with the possibilities of film sans theaters, Levine’s project proves a riddle, demanding debate and conversation. Adventure, Drama, History. Stars: 993,611 Biography, Comedy, Drama. $5.38M, R Tom Hanks, Directors: | Director: Stars: | Director: $96.90M, Approved | Director: | Gross: Biography, Drama. – Glenn H. Winner of Best Director at the 2019 Locarno Festival, Damien Manivel’s Isadora’s Children surprises with its sincere take on the healing powers of art and creativity. Aaron Eckhart, A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose. | | Riz Ahmed bares all with a truly raw performance, but never loses sight of the compassion required to feel sincere––thanks in no small part to Paul Raci and Olivia Cooke. Song Wok-suk, R The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list. Arnold Schwarzenegger, He reminds us that the ghosts that live longest are those of the innocent who continue perishing to greed and corruption. Drama. I was lucky enough to see his tender, spellbinding new film at BFI London’s in-person, distanced screenings, and strongly hope others are afforded that pleasure when things open again in 2021––when it will most certainly appear on TFS’s list for the second year running. Director: 116 min Stars: Throughout, the magisterial Varela navigates through dark night of the soul odysseys that thread biography, history, and phantasmagoric regrets with an unflinching placidity and implacably vast melancholy. "Rear Window" (1954) Critic score: 100/100. 144 min | Through the head-scratching time shifts and breaks in reality, the uncomfortable malaise of growing old, “did it happen or was it a dream?” platitudes, Kaufman has faithfully adapted a novel, but this is undoubtedly his work—one of his best. avec Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel . Stars: Yimou Zhang But what big dicks these two have! – John F. Every few years there’s a biopic to truly upend our notion of genre boundaries. | Gross: After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. Edward Burns, Votes: | It knows the feeling of welcoming scorched earth; it sees the inability of truly moving past trauma. | Gross: 1,338,383 Steven Spielberg Brian Howe, Votes: Linda Hamilton, | $78.90M, Not Rated All I can say is these movies made my time 100% worth. | | I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec). As each member tries to make amends with each other, we witness a seedy criminal underworld that exists beyond the glimmer of luxury. Christopher Plummer, Votes: $70.10M, PG-13 | Gross: | $148.10M, R Soia Lira, Votes: A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. Steven Spielberg Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman). Lee Unkrich 50) Silent Running (1972) ... allied to top work from Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams … Biography, Drama, History. Drama, Music. | Maggie Grace, Soledad Villamil, Their mission to exhume the remains of Stormin’ Norman, the 5th Blood played by Chadwick Boseman, and locate their missing gold tests every man, but none more than Paul. Thu … $163.57M, Not Rated 896,056 Ahney Her, Votes: Robert Patrick, Votes: $170.74M, G | Bahare Seddiqi, Stars: | Sigourney Weaver, 178 min 719,239 | https://youtu.be/YVOJ16LLfpk - Top 50 Movie Soundtrack (Part 2) | Gross: Álvaro Guerrero, Votes: William Wyler $13.18M, R | Gross: In its recounting of an individual’s intellectual flowering and decay, the film never relinquishes an air of restlessness, a constant desire for temporal and stylistic reinvention and self-betterment that is inevitably shaped and bent by the forces of history. 447,794 Drama, Thriller. $57.60M, R William Holden, Eli Wallach, Yulian Zhao, Votes: 154 min | | Gross: Richard Gere, 127 min Masahiro Motoki, After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. Top 100 Mystery & Suspense Movies Best of Rotten Tomatoes Movies with 40 or more critic reviews vie for their place in history at Rotten Tomatoes. Adrien Brody, Dalia Hernández, | | | | Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. National Film Registry (74) Blockbuster (67) Afi (61) Murder (55) Cult Film (54) Death (50) Famous Score (47) Husband Wife Relationship (45) Violence (43) Friendship (42) Based On Novel (40) Blood (40) Title Spoken By Character (39) Cult Classic (34) Mother Son Relationship (33) Cigarette Smoking (32) Drunkenness (32) Father Daughter Relationship (32) Singing (32) Marriage (31) Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Thus the short snapshot we get of a music-lined house party in ’80s West London is a sumptuous feast for any fans of the medium. Omar Sy, | Kate Winslet, 89 min Families are messy and closure is a myth, but with storytelling this vitally expressive, one may actually hope to heal and some day understand. Director: Lionel Barrymore, The top 50 are presented here and ranked from worst to best. | That’s typical of Kelly Reichardt, who established her reputation as one of America’s greatest auteurs through decades of quietly doing good work. – Christian G. Andrew Patterson’s micro-budgeted debut is full of the bravado one might expect from a first-time filmmaker, but what sets The Vast of Night apart is how its director has the wits to elevate his film above mere style. Haya Harareet, Votes: – Brian R. Georgian filmmaker Déa Kulumbegashvili’s debut Beginning rests in the stares and prolonged silences of Jana (Ia Sukhitashvili), a wife and mother entrenched in a tiny Jehovah’s Witness community. Liam Neeson, Hee Jae, ... And for more movies the critics loved, These Are the Top-Rated Movies on Rotten Tomatoes. | Gross: A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. 48,502 Crafted with endearing honesty and off-the-charts empathy, Minari features stellar performances from Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung, and little Alan Kim, as well as a soaring score from Emile Mosseri. There could not have been a better year for a film like this to stand-out. | Also worthy of the big screen: Delroy Lindo, who leads the all-star cast as Paul, the MAGA-hat-wearing member in a foursome of black Vietnam veterans. It’s stunningly well crafted, exquisitely emotional, and features one of Eva Green’s best performances, playing an astronaut preparing to leave her daughter behind for a year-long space mission. 152 min Shahab Hosseini, Votes: Crime, Drama. Richard Attenborough, Votes: – Jordan R. The story of cinema is the story of gestures. | 143 min 122 min – Dan M. In a year when it’s easy to feel failed by government at all levels, Frederick Wiseman’s sprawling, essential four-hour and thirty-two minute documentary City Hall examines local sausage making in Boston City Hall. | The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies. | Tom Hanks, Director: | Gross: Christian Bale, Action, Crime, Drama. Will Smith, $232.91M, R 622,004 If she is the film’s solid ground, then Chadwick Boseman is pure lightning. Jung Woo-sung, Joaquin Phoenix, Action, Crime, Drama. Director: | And if that were its only goal, Gavin O’Connor’s rousing underdog tale might still be among the best of the year. Ron Howard $136.80M, R A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later. Unerringly sumptuous, Marcello’s textures and hazy setting bring out all the contradictions and faded glory of the 20th century. | Gross: Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. | Gross: | Lee Byung-Hun, | 192,637 Director: 129 min Adventure, Drama, War. Scatman Crothers, Votes: Famke Janssen, Action, Adventure, Drama. Michael J. 116 min Give your time and your support to Minari. P. A marvel of economy, rhythm, and, paradoxically, totality, Jodie Mack’s infectious The Grand Bizarre is a globetrotting compendium of textures: visual, aural, material. Stars: It’s a must-see journey of integrity amidst corruption in pursuit of necessary change, with the harsh realization that things may already be too late. Action, Sci-Fi. – John F. 15. | Gross: Director: 194 min When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair. Stars: Andrey Zvyagintsev As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression. | Gross: Michael Caine, Votes: Sareh Bayat, 1,615,736 $4.36M, PG-13 111 min | $204.84M, PG John Fiedler, Votes: | An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. Stars: Director: Biography, Drama, Music. $145.00M, Not Rated $6.10M, R 36,336 James Stewart, | | Gross: Ki-duk Kim Oliver Reed, Votes: Loosely using Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction novel as inspiration, she teams with star-producer Frances McDormand to capture a compelling and empathetic portrait of a nomadic lifestyle. Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart). – Erik N. 27. John Hurt, Hypnotic. | | $1.50M, G Menu. $0.01M, Not Rated Menu. | Gross: Tom Sizemore, $5.60M, R Director: Clint Eastwood, David Lean Mel Gibson A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease. Director: Illustration: PR. An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew. However, anchored by a stunning lead performance by Ben Affleck, the script by Brad Ingelsby actually derives a much deeper understanding of pain and addiction, making this a movie that delivers not only rousing athletic stakes but also deep pathos. Like the narrator in Philip Larkin’s “Reason for Attendance,” we have the pleasure of peering through the window and watching the dancing unfold. When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. 195 min Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell). There are layers to this picture that will become more defined with time. Top US films 2020 Film. Robert Zemeckis Jong-ho Kim, – Mike M. It is possible that this is the kindest film ever made. To create this list, Stacker compiled data on the highest-rated WWII films from Metacritic and IMDb. | | This list has been created based on my opinion only. | Jun Ji-Hyun, Director: Mel Gibson, Manivel focuses on four women linked to a performance piece by dancer Isadora Duncan in four ways: one studies it, one teaches it, one learns it, and one watches it at a recital. What amounts is a wrenching journey that’s told with the utmost empathy. Yet he continues, plowing his way towards an uncertain future, hoping that there will be peace on the other side of the horizon. Movies. View Gallery 50 photos. – Ryan S. After directing documentaries for the last two decades, Heidi Ewing makes her narrative debut with this graceful look into the real lives of Iván García (Armando Espitia) and Gerardo ZaVe (Christian Vasquez). Akira Kurosawa While college isn't always the focus of the films on this list, it is the setting at the very least. | | À la différence du Top 111 Films, ce Top 100 des Tops 10 n'est pas basé sur la note SensCritique mais plutôt, comme son nom l'indique, sur vos propres Tops 10 films.Plus un film est placé haut dans votre Top 10, plus il obtient de points. Diane Keaton, Votes: 686,850 After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. Lee J. Cobb, Votes: With little dialogue and a square aspect ratio, the film becomes a haunting tale of seclusion, repression, and breaking free of religious, gender, and traditional constraints. | Gross: | Gross: Seon-jin Lee, PG-13 Director: | $187.71M, PG-13 | Stars: Drama, Romance. Director: We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions—a selection of those personal lists will be shared in the coming days—and after tallying votes, a top 50 has been assembled. 212 min | Gross: $3.64M, PG-13 | the Extra -Terrestrial’ (1982) Seven years after “Jaws,” Steven Spielberg conquered the zeitgeist … 50. Haley Joel Osment, Frank Darabont – Orla S. Tilda Swinton Starring in New Films by Joanna Hogg and Christopher Doyle, David O. Russell Unveils Star-Studded Ensemble for Next Film as Production Begins, Delroy Lindo on Spike Lee’s Trust, Speaking Truth, and the Gratitude of Working with Chadwick Boseman, Audrey Hepburn’s Son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Reflects on His Mother’s Elegance, Authenticity, and Legacy, The B-Side – The Final Frame: Alfred Hitchcock. 189 min | | Gross: Action, Crime, Drama. | But with three rich and varied features under her belt—Augustine, Disorder, and Proxima—it’s time for Winocour to enter the stratosphere. Stars: We got an Edgar Wright movie coming, a new James Bond film, and a new Christopher Nolan film. Shelley Duvall, Laura Dern, | Director Andrew Ahn’s character study (from a screenplay by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen) follows young Cody (Lucas Jaye) and his mother Kathy (the great Hong Chau) as they attempt to clean out Kathy’s estranged, hermetic sister’s house. Al Pacino, Director: 2. Director: | Gross: 12,377 $210.61M, G Ahn’s rendering of community and friendship against the backdrop of exasperated lives is nearly perfect. – Matt C. 11. Drama, War. Gerardo Taracena, Outside Johnnie To, I’d be hard-pressed to name someone who more thoroughly embraces the mysteries of genre than German filmmaker Christian Petzold. | Gross: Elaborate designs (in gorgeous backgrounds that play with perspective) serve as the stage for two endearing protagonists, Mebh and Robyn, to band together and try stopping the villainous Oliver Cromwell from destroying nature outside the town of Kilkenny. 219,059 Clint Eastwood, Jong-hak Baek, | | Gross: The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. Connie Nielsen, | Drama, Mystery, Romance. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Albert Brooks, 93 min | Gross: | Sallitt is already one of the great critics-turned-directors, and with Fourteen––which tells the tale of a friendship over a decade––he increasingly seems like one of our most gifted observers of relationship dynamics. | | Gross: Director: World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (Don Hertzfeldt). | Director: Olivia Williams, Votes: Next-door neighbor Del (Brian Dennehy, in a legendary final role) becomes fast friends with Cody, his solitary life brightened up by the duo. Here, Green slowly yet constantly feeds us with new information akin to the works of Chantal Akerman and turn-of-the-millennium Gus Van Sant, with Julia Garner’s performance anchoring it all throughout. Movies. | | Danny Lloyd, 116 min Stars: | Since many Americans refuse to acknowledge that they weren’t spared from money’s global erosion of honesty and empathy, a film like Alexander Nanau’s Collective becomes a crucially important mirror for them to finally confront it. Stars: 1 of 50. Darren Aronofsky – Conor O. Director: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe). $2.38M, R – Logan K. Darius Marder’s tale of an addict-turned-drummer who begins to go deaf is a balled-up fist of a film that eases into a gentle touch. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Stars: | | Gross: – Jared M. Romanian New Waver Corneliu Porumboiu’s latest feature finds him taking yet another unexpected turn, this time in a mainstream direction. Following her belated international breakthrough, Angela Schanelec brought her near-abstract, mysterious approach to a more piercingly emotional story. Alejandro G. Iñárritu Education hits hardest. 865,824 315,031 Action, Crime, Drama. Director: Thandie Newton, Stars: Embedded in the enchanting world of Indian classical music, it chronicles one man’s attempt at glory and ends up an ode to all of history’s also-rans, their stories unremembered if no less profound. Andrew Stanton, | The world that Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles imagine––a Brazil in the not-so-distant future filtered through Spaghetti Western––is so vivid, its characters so alive, that it makes for one of 2020’s most absorbing films. Check out mistakes in the 50 best movies of all time. Stars: | $50.87M, R Director: Stars: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Jaden Smith, Eugen Sandow flexed his muscles and Annabelle Moore glided on camera with the Serpentine Dance. Ridley Scott Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock roots itself beautifully in this tradition by expanding the understanding of how humans connect and communicate through a kinesthetic language. Director: 910,076 $216.54M, PG Stars: Director: Ricardo Darín, An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun. As Johnson’s dad nears the end of his life, she stages elaborate stunts to show the potential ways he could die, creating morbid, bite-size movies of his demise. Drama. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson). | Drama. | Throughout Small Axe, McQueen explores the pungent, lingering effects of institutional racism with radical, fearless filmmaking, and Education is especially a triumph. Ki-duk Kim, Asghar Farhadi But Porumboiu’s confidence and versatility as a filmmaker makes his plate spinning look easy, creating a blast of pure entertainment that puts more recent studio tentpoles and high concept films like it to shame. | de Albert Dupontel . | The process turns into a moving, tear-inducing, therapeutic exercise—a meditation on death that’s also, more importantly, a celebration of life while we’re around to witness it. Eliza Hittman’s evocative and deeply engaging third feature Never Rarely Sometimes Always carefully guides her audience to empathize and engage with a female subject battling this pertinent issue, meanwhile avoiding sensationalist pitfalls that many abortion narratives fall into. Drama, Romance. 89 min 94%: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 86: 51. $1.28M, R Blue Ruin (2014) Blue Ruin opens on a beach bum named Dwight Evans. | Gross: This documentary forces us to see the victims of two tragedies (a nightclub fire and the unethical institutions tasked to help them) as more than statistics to become a damningly candid treatise on the ills of society and the damage wrought when bad people ascend to power with little interest in the public that put them there. A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg. Danny Aiello, Votes: | Pierre Morel | 757,397 Audrey Fleurot, Votes: Pablo Rago, – Ben G. Da 5 Bloods’ epic story of brotherhood in Vietnam is designed for the big screen and that it’s only available on Netflix does the movie a disservice. Seeing a community unite against evil this year, while protests demanding an end to police brutality raged outside, reminded me that cinema isn’t only a mirror, but often a call to action. Living off scraps of food … Top 50 Best Films of 2019.