Cinema · 2019 Ranked
Best Films of 2019, Ranked by IQ Score
The last year before COVID reshaped cinema. The films of 2019, ranked by IQ Score.
2019 is the last year before COVID reshaped cinema. Parasite won Best Picture (the first non-English-language film to do so). Joker made over a billion dollars on a $55M budget. Marriage Story, 1917, Knives Out, Uncut Gems, all canonical within the same twelve months.
The structural argument for 2019-as-canonical-year: the convergence of A24's prestige-indie catalog (Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse), Netflix theatrical-prestige (Marriage Story, The Irishman), Korean cinema's commercial breakthrough (Parasite), and the franchise-conclusion year (Avengers: Endgame). The last fully-functional theatrical year before COVID reshaped distribution.
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