2019
by klday | created - 14 Oct 2018 | updated - 14 Mar 2021 | PublicThe entertainment prospects of another year of life
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1. Parasite (2019)
R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik
Votes: 960,574 | Gross: $53.37M
2. Monos (2019)
R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón
Votes: 18,929
3. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,864 | Gross: $0.82M
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
R | 122 min | Drama, Romance
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Votes: 109,709 | Gross: $3.76M
5. Midsommar (2019)
R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper
Votes: 403,796 | Gross: $27.33M
6. Slut in a Good Way (2018)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three teenage girls explore their first taste of freedom: Charlotte, the recently heartbroken, Megane, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, a virgin who dreams of love - all three smitten by the guys at the "Toy Depot."
Director: Sophie Lorain | Stars: Romane Denis, Anthony Therrien, Rose Adam, Vassili Schneider
Votes: 631 | Gross: $0.04M
or "Charlotte Has Fun"
7. Uncut Gems (2019)
R | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
With his debts mounting and angry collectors closing in, a fast-talking New York City jeweler risks everything in hope of staying afloat and alive.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Idina Menzel, Mesfin Lamengo
Votes: 318,424
8. The Farewell (I) (2019)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Director: Lulu Wang | Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo, Hong Lu
Votes: 71,169 | Gross: $16.88M
"The Farewell" begins with a lie, opening with a phone call between Billie and her grandmother where the older woman claims that she's sitting at home while she waits for hospital appointment. Therein lies the question of the film: we lie to our loved ones, but is it for our benefit or for theirs? Nai Nai wants to spare Billie from worrying about her, but she is aware that the lie is dubious, growing visibily uncomfortable the hospital paging system goes off repeatedly in the background.
9. Knives Out (2019)
PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis
Votes: 774,271 | Gross: $165.36M
10. Luce (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
Director: Julius Onah | Stars: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tim Roth
Votes: 15,121 | Gross: $1.78M
11. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 848,672 | Gross: $142.50M
Compared to the tight storytelling of Tarantino's movies over the years, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" feels almost plotless. The unhurried pace is an indulgence that allows us, and Tarantino, to just hang out in sunny California of 1969, but it creates a certain tension just the same. After all, this is the year of the gruesome Manson family murders, and we know that one of our characters, the carefree young actress Sharon Tate, will be among their victim.
Tate, played by Margot Robbie, is an endearing presence, but not an especially nuanced character. We watch her charmed life of dancing and partying; she charms theater staff into letting her see one of her movies for free, and she kicks her feet up on the seat, grinning equally at the movie and the laughter of the audience with her in the theater. Much of the character's inner life, such as it is, is conveyed speculatively from male characters from a remove. Steve McQueen sizes up her love triangle with husband Roman Polanski and ex boyfriend Jay Sebring. Kurt Russell, narrating, spells out the humdrum details of her last day of life. Faded TV cowboy Rick Dalton, who lives next door, speculates that if he befriends Tate and Polanski he might raise his profile.
12. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
PG | 109 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson
Votes: 88,801 | Gross: $61.70M
13. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 341,417 | Gross: $175.08M
14. Little Women (2019)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Votes: 246,189 | Gross: $108.10M
15. Ad Astra (2019)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 260,588 | Gross: $50.19M
16. Shazam! (2019)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer
Votes: 385,148 | Gross: $140.37M
a rousing antidote to the increasing grim direction of superhero cinema.
17. In Fabric (2018)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram
Votes: 13,967
A woman buys a red dress with an ominous Latin phrase stitched inside from a department store pretty much openly operated by a coven of witches. Strickland’s latest is an unsubtle anti-consumerist fable enlivened with giallo stylings. As the dress moves from owner to owner, the film loses its thread, dabbling in unengaging dadaistic comedy.
18. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
Votes: 255,248 | Gross: $0.43M
From the director of The VVitch, another New England folk tale in the guise of psychological horror. Meticulously designed and researched, with forceful perfomances by Dafoe and Pattinson, playing respectively a grizzled lighthouse keeper and his put-upon subordinant. Dazzling black and white cinematography, with a cramped aspect ratio that evokes the uncanny quality of silent film and the claustrophobia of our setting (at 1:19, the aspect ratio of The Lighthouse is actually narrower than the old Academy ratio).
As much effort has gone into the construction of the movie and these volcanic performances, one may wish that a bit more had gone into the story, which peters out on a twist ending that feels a little too familiar. Certainly a far cry from the fantastic climax of The VVitch.
19. The Nightingale (I) (2018)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie
Votes: 35,673 | Gross: $0.39M
An Irish girl on a Tasmanian penal colony is raped by British soldiers and forced to watch as they murder her family. With a stubborn Aboriginal guide in tow, she pursues them across the outback, seeking vengeance. "Babadook" director Jennifer Kent sympathizes absolutely with her quest but denies her catharsis. Meanwhile, as the soldiers carve a bloody swath through the wilderness, the horror of it all becomes numbing.
20. Ready or Not (I) (2019)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny
Votes: 182,683 | Gross: $28.71M
frothy but enjoyable horror comedy with a winning star turn by Samara Weaving.
21. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
PG-13 | 181 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth
Votes: 1,266,809 | Gross: $858.37M
22. Toy Story 4 (2019)
G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.
Director: Josh Cooley | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale
Votes: 280,557 | Gross: $434.04M
23. Rafiki (2018)
83 min | Drama, Romance
"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
Director: Wanuri Kahiu | Stars: Samantha Mugatsia, Neville Misati, Nice Githinji, Charlie Karumi
Votes: 3,300 | Gross: $0.14M
24. Booksmart (2019)
R | 102 min | Comedy
On the eve of their high-school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis
Votes: 131,211 | Gross: $22.68M
25. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
R | 121 min | Drama
A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.
Director: Joe Talbot | Stars: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold
Votes: 21,969 | Gross: $4.52M
26. Missing Link (2019)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Mr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend.
Director: Chris Butler | Stars: Hugh Jackman, David Walliams, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas
Votes: 28,796 | Gross: $16.65M
27. Crawl (I) (2019)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson
Votes: 94,079 | Gross: $39.01M
28. Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Not Rated | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Director: Issa López | Stars: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo, Hanssel Casillas
Votes: 9,052 | Gross: $0.13M
29. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
R | 130 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 426,137 | Gross: $171.02M
Getting a bit fatigued with this series. Great fights, slick camerawork, but it's not much for story, and the characters are all vicious assassins, so they're hard to like. This one builds to a couple of reversals that frankly feel like they should have happened at the end of part 2, at least. There's a great fight at a weapon shop, with Wick and his opponents backing off ever so often to smash the display cases and rearms themselves. And a fight in a library where he snaps a rival's neck over the spine of a book. But by now, a lot of the action feels a bit too familiar. Sure, the first few dozen time you see Reeves cripple a guy and shoot him point blank in the head it's thrilling, but eventually you get tired of him pulling the same moves.
30. Jojo Rabbit (2019)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi
Votes: 441,714 | Gross: $33.37M
A sappy war film and a Taika Waititi comedy. Frankly, though it has some stong laughs and Waititi's Hitler is an inspired comic performance, this is a movie that is working at cross purposes. The Nazis don't deserve the understanding or the pity that is misguidedly extended here. Sure, they were only human. But in the end, that won't save any of us.
I recommend some Kurt Vonnegut instead, "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Mother Night" perhaps.
31. Wild Rose (2018)
R | 101 min | Drama, Music
A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson, Lesley Hart
Votes: 15,337 | Gross: $1.64M
32. High Life (2018)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André 3000, Mia Goth
Votes: 41,057 | Gross: $1.23M
Maybe it's just me, but while this space oddity has some arresting images, it feels needlessly opaque. The scrambled chronology, the montage style, the minimalist dialog and brooding performances don't really add up to the sum of their parts.
33. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
Director: Jon Watts | Stars: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 557,282 | Gross: $390.53M
a big disappointment. Spider-Man: Homecoming is a highlight for the Marvel franchise because of its low key charms. The sequel amps up the spectacle, but it feels hollow from the get-go. That this hollowness is to a degree intentional doesn't excuse it.
34. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
PG | 107 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing the huge new threat of Lego Duplo, invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Director: Mike Mitchell | Stars: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish
Votes: 76,719 | Gross: $105.81M
This had its charms, especially Jon Lajoie's songs (also, an end credits song by Beck and the Lonely Island). But it strongly suggests, as my experience watching The Lego Batman Movie did before, that I just don't need to watch another lego movie ever again. The first Lego movie was improbably entertaining, thanks to wunderkindern Miller and Lord's spirited script that told a funny story that actually took play and creativity as its themes, and it culminated in a fourth wall break that was unexpectedly moving. And though the second film has a nice moral of its own, it just doesn't feel like there's anywhere fresh and new to take the story, except to showcase more fine toys from our friends at the Lego Corporation, naturally! Once the fourth wall is broken, you can't brick it back up and break it again.
35. Captain Marvel (2019)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck | Stars: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law
Votes: 611,070 | Gross: $426.83M
Convoluted origin story charts Carol Danvers' journey from jet pilot to brainwashed Kree supersoldier to tesseract-enhancing godling but fails to hit the arc's emotional beats. You can add Jude Law to the ever-growing roster of underwhelming Marvel villains. A digitally de-aged Samuel L plays young Nick Fury, demoted into yet another sidekick role. At least the flerken is cute.
36. Greta (2018)
R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Jane Perry
Votes: 38,097 | Gross: $10.52M
37. Aladdin (2019)
PG | 128 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Aladdin, a kind thief, woos Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah, with the help of Genie. When Jafar, the grand vizier, tries to usurp the king, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie must stop him from succeeding.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari
Votes: 290,327 | Gross: $355.56M
Fool us once with this reheated schmaltz, then shame on you. By now the shame is definitely on whoever is still going to see this shit.
38. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,073 | Gross: $0.10M
at AFS
39. Ben-Hur (1959)
G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
Votes: 253,766 | Gross: $74.70M
60th anniversary screening. A big Hollywood epic, with all the phoniness that implies. Worth seeing for a better appreciation of "Hail, Caesar!" alone. Remember Baird Whitlock shoving through a rough queue of Hebrews to quench his thirst at a desert well, only to find himself staring into the face of a spectacularly blond Jesus? The famous chariot scene is one for the ages, of course. A depiction of combat at sea near the halfway part is somewhat less impressive, although it culminates in a Boschian scene where panicked galley slaves tear at their chains as the ship fills with water. (Pretty gory movie in spots, though it would have you think that leprosy is comparable to a bad case of acne.)
Of course, Ben-Hur paid huge dividends for the Jesus Christ Extended Cinematic Universe, which is still going strong today. Ben Mankiewicz was on hand to inform viewers that Ben-Hur was a box office smash, a hit at the Academy Awards, and a merchandizing sensation, with such quality tie-in products as Ben-His and Ben-Hurs towels. Classy!
40. The Wicker Man (1973)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
Director: Robin Hardy | Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland
Votes: 92,367 | Gross: $0.06M
at AFS Easter's got Ben-Hur, and May Day gets a good Pagan rejoinder in The Wicker Man.
41. The Princess Bride (1987)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon
Votes: 451,114 | Gross: $30.86M
"Flashback Cinema" series at a multiplex
42. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,416 | Gross: $44.02M
AFS
43. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,485 | Gross: $27.55M
a classic. At the Drafthouse
44. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck
Votes: 27,322
At the Institut Francais in London
45. Don't Look Now (1973)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania
Votes: 62,355 | Gross: $0.98M
At Cruzon Bloomsbury in London
46. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
Votes: 887,282 | Gross: $59.10M
Rooftop Movie Club in London
47. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 340,342 | Gross: $73.71M
Multiplex
48. A Christmas Story (1983)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 168,639 | Gross: $20.61M
Drafthouse
49. Serenity (I) (2019)
R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.
Director: Steven Knight | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke
Votes: 45,428 | Gross: $8.55M
A new year brings new movies to say "hell naw" to. Like this overripe noir with a twist so bad M Night Shymalan would roll his eyes.
50. The Hustle (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Two con women - one low rent and the other high class - team up to take down the men who have wronged them.
Director: Chris Addison | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 65,680 | Gross: $35.42M
51. Bad Education (2019)
TV-MA | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White, Allison Janney
Votes: 43,514
52. Hellboy (2019)
R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane
Votes: 98,832 | Gross: $21.90M
In no hurry to see this one. David Harbor's makeup doesn't seem to allow much in the way of expression, all the more a pity because the makeup was so good in the Del Toro movies. And reviews are not good.
53. The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Alex, a 12-year-old boy, and his friends fight an evil sorceress with the help of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, in a bid to save the world from her atrocities.
Director: Joe Cornish | Stars: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor
Votes: 18,726 | Gross: $16.79M
54. The Irishman (2019)
R | 209 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 431,344 | Gross: $7.00M
55. Dark Phoenix (2019)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix, causing the X-Men to have to decide if her life is worth more than all of humanity.
Director: Simon Kinberg | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 205,153 | Gross: $65.85M
don't really care about this one
56. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali
Votes: 293,901 | Gross: $85.71M
Sorry Rob, but this don't look too good
57. Lucy in the Sky (2019)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
Director: Noah Hawley | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Dan Stevens
Votes: 8,696
58. Freak Shift
Action, Thriller | Pre-production
A band of misfits hunt down and kill underground, nocturnal monsters.
Director: Ben Wheatley
Freak Shift mania is running wild
59. Brightburn (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Director: David Yarovesky | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Abraham Clinkscales
Votes: 107,893 | Gross: $17.30M
60. The Beach Bum (2019)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Stefania LaVie Owen
Votes: 24,844 | Gross: $3.49M
61. Her Smell (2018)
R | 136 min | Drama, Music
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Director: Alex Ross Perry | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn
Votes: 8,200 | Gross: $0.26M
62. Under the Silver Lake (2018)
R | 139 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sam, a disenchanted young man, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.
Director: David Robert Mitchell | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Callie Hernandez
Votes: 51,383 | Gross: $0.05M
63. It Chapter Two (2019)
R | 169 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa
Votes: 302,195 | Gross: $211.59M
64. The Goldfinch (2019)
R | 149 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 27,030 | Gross: $5.33M
65. Domino (I) (2019)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner's murder by a mysterious man.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Søren Malling, Paprika Steen, Helena Kaittani
Votes: 6,641
66. The Dead Don't Die (2019)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits
Votes: 85,501 | Gross: $6.56M
67. Waves (I) (2019)
R | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alexa Demie, Bill Wise
Votes: 30,786
68. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: José Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan López-Tagle, Adam Driver
Votes: 22,195 | Gross: $0.39M
69. Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
R | 159 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Once two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation.
Director: S. Craig Zahler | Stars: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White
Votes: 55,304
70. The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After being attacked on the street, a young man enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an effort to learn how to defend himself from future threats.
Director: Riley Stearns | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada
Votes: 40,920 | Gross: $2.41M
71. The Lodge (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage
Votes: 57,904
72. Shadow (2018)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng, Qianyuan Wang
Votes: 18,227 | Gross: $0.52M
73. Swallow (I) (2019)
R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis | Stars: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel
Votes: 28,319
74. Head Count (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of college students on a weekend getaway accidentally summon a supernatural entity intent on using them for its deadly ritual.
Director: Elle Callahan | Stars: Isaac Jay, Jay Lee, Ashleigh Morghan, Bevin Bru
Votes: 4,785
75. 1BR (2019)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Sarah tries to start anew in LA, but her neighbours are not what they seem.
Director: David Marmor | Stars: Nicole Brydon Bloom, Giles Matthey, Taylor Nichols, Alan Blumenfeld
Votes: 15,499
76. Doctor Sleep (2019)
R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 218,629 | Gross: $31.58M
77. Ode to Nothing (2018)
92 min | Drama
Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.
Director: Dwein Baltazar | Stars: Pokwang, Joonee Gamboa, Lita Loresco, Dido de la Paz
Votes: 585
78. Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Maverick indie filmmaker Al Adamson's real life was even crazier than one of the 30-plus sex 'n' schlock drive-in movies he made in the '60s and '70s.
Director: David Gregory | Stars: Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman, Chris Poggiali, Ken Adamson
Votes: 635
79. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 128,925 | Gross: $5.81M
80. Blood on Her Name (2019)
85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.
Director: Matthew Pope | Stars: Bethany Anne Lind, Will Patton, Elisabeth Röhm, Jared Ivers
Votes: 1,887
81. Adam (I) (2019)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Awkward teen Adam spends his last high school summer with his big sister, who throws herself into NYC's lesbian and trans activist scene. In this coming-of-age comedy, Adam and those around him encounter love, friendship and hard truths.
Director: Rhys Ernst | Stars: Nicholas Alexander, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Margaret Qualley, Leo Sheng
Votes: 1,706
82. Little Monsters (2019)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids'-show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
Director: Abe Forsythe | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Josh Gad, Kat Stewart
Votes: 19,293
83. Marriage Story (2019)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer, Azhy Robertson
Votes: 346,583 | Gross: $2.00M
84. Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Teenage explorer Dora leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.
Director: James Bobin | Stars: Isabela Merced, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria
Votes: 34,736 | Gross: $60.48M
I mean, this could be or could have been a list of movies that are worth seeing, that I would like to see. A terrible night at the multiplex seeing a shit movie made made for morons and previews for the same suggests that no, no, no, it shouldn't be that. Movies have no magic or mystique, no grand stories left to tell. They're intellectual property mines, they're nostalgia-seeking missiles. Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Dora the Explorer Extended Cinematic Universe.
Okay, no more endorsements. This list is turtles all the way down from here on out.
85. The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Through his bond with his owner, aspiring Formula One race car driver Denny, golden retriever Enzo learns that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life.
Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia, Jackie Minns, Marcus Hondro
Votes: 38,193 | Gross: $25.50M
Yes, my pretties, take THAT. And also this! This, preposterous talking dog nonsense in which a puppy gruffly voiced by Kevin Costner opines ENDLESSLY about cars and driving cars. Should a dog think about cars more than "look out for the big fast scary thing that could kill me"? Somehow this imbecilic tripe is not, far as a cursory glance reveals, a return to the A Dog's Purpose Cinematic Universe.
86. The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Continuing the story of Max and his pet friends, following their secret lives after their owners leave them for work or school each day.
Directors: Chris Renaud, Jonathan del Val | Stars: Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford, Eric Stonestreet
Votes: 68,950 | Gross: $158.87M
And if you liked that, then choke on this latest offering from Illumination, those purveyors of bottom of the barrel kiddie schlock.
87. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
PG | 119 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
Director: Joachim Rønning | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Michelle Pfeiffer
Votes: 118,904 | Gross: $113.93M
Oh goody, a return to the cheap and ugly looking fantasy kingdom of 'Maleficent'. This time she's really evil, Disney swears it! They were saving that for a supremely necessary sequel! Because you can have your panderingly stupid 'feminist retelling' and you can eat it, too. Hey, and coming soon from Disney, an origin story for Cruella DeVil! Hopefully with gratuitous puppy murder.
88. The Lion King (2019)
PG | 118 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Votes: 267,180 | Gross: $543.64M
Why, what's that over yonder? It's yet another reheated Disney turd on the horizon.
89. Lady and the Tramp (2019)
PG | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
Director: Charlie Bean | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Justin Theroux, Sam Elliott, Ashley Jensen
Votes: 24,514
And another steaming pile of mouse crap, which promises more of that Look Who's Talking magic. There really is no limit to the money you can make playing people for suckers, is there?
90. Cats (2019)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba
Votes: 55,931
Inexplicably, they made a movie out of this show, and boy, it looks terrible. Finally, though, Tom Hooper’s found a project appropriate for his negligible talent.
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