2019 Movie List -- The Top 161 So Far

THE STANDOUTS (20) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

Wild Rose ***1/2
The Farewell ***1/2
Joker ***1/2
Toy Story 4 ***1/2
The Nightingale ***1/2
Jojo Rabbit ***
Brittany Runs a Marathon ***
Late Night ***
Blinded by the Light ***
Long Shot ***
Judy ***
Love, Antosha ***
Arctic ***
Glass ***
Share (HBO) ***
Apollo 11 ***
I Love You, Now Die (HBO) ***
The Peanut Butter Falcon ***
The Platform ***
Parasite ***


THE GOOD (36) - These represent quality filmmaking all-around.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood ***
Luce ***
Good Boys ***
Scandalous ***
The Mustang ***
Birds of Passage ***
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum ***
Crawl ***
Hustlers ***
The Aeronauts ***
Stuber ***
Terminator: Dark Fate ***
Booksmart ***
Honey Boy ***
Always Be My Maybe ***
High Flying Bird ***
Dragged Across Concrete ***
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil ***
The Kill Team ***
The Report ***
The Command ***

Fyre Fraud (Hulu) ***

Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix) ***
Abducted in Plain Sight ***
Cold Case Hammarskjold ***
Fighting With My Family ***
Zombieland 2: Double Tap ***
The Art of Self Defense ***
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 (34) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence, the name of this section.

Rocketman ***
The Last Black Man in San Francisco ***
El Camino ***
Ma ***
Greta ***
Spider-Man: Far from Home ***
Gemini Man ***
Avengers: Endgame ***
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
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
Isn't It Romantic **1/2
The Great Hack **1/2
Sweetheart **1/2
Miss Bala **1/2


THE GUILTY PLEASURES (23) - 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 ***
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
The Fanatic **


THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (39) - 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 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
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 **
A Hidden Life *1/2
Greener Grass *1/2
The Wolf Hour *1/2


THE BAD (9) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.


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

IN PROGRESS (1) - I started watching these but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will.

100% Julian Edelman (30 minutes)

EMBARGOED (3) - Silence is golden... for now.

American Son
Bombshell
Queen & Slim

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 (92): 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Abominable, The Addams Family, The Aftermath, Aladdin, American Factory, American Woman, Anna, Annabelle Comes Home, Ash Is Purest White, The Banana Splits Movie, The Best of Enemies, Biggest Little Farm, Body at Brighton Rock, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Brahms: The Boy II, Braid, The Brink, El Chicano, Close, Countdown, The Curse of La Llorona, Diamantino, Diane, A Dog's Journey, Don't Let Go, Downton Abbey, Driven, Everybody Knows, Fast Color, Framing John DeLorean, Frozen 2, Give Me Liberty, Gloria Bell, Hagazussa: The Heathen’s Curse, 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, Katie Says Goodbye, The Kid, Knock Down the House, 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, Mister America, The Mountain, 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, Transit, Tread, Uglydolls, Unicorn Store, The Upside, The White Crow, Wonder Park, Yesterday


COMING SOON (44): 6 Underground, 21 Bridges, 1917, Atlantics, The Banker, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Black and Blue, Black Christmas, Cats, Charlie's Angels, Clemency, The Current War, Dark Waters, The Devil Next Door, Diego Maradona, Doctor Sleep, Dolemite is My Name, Earthquake Bird, Ford v. Ferrari, Girl on the Third Floor, The Good Liar, The Irishman, Jumanji: The Next Level, Just Mercy, The King, Lady and the Tramp, Last Christmas, The Laundromat, Les Miserables, Little Women, Marriage Story, Mickey and the Bear, Midway, Motherless Brooklyn, Noelle, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, QT8, Richard Jewell, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Tell Me Who I Am, Trick, The Two Popes, Uncut Gems, Waves