Little Women3. Knives Out10. Sam Mendes’ elaborately choreographed plunge into the trenches of WWI is an undeniably impressive technical achievement. If Give Me Liberty was just a portrait of manic stress brought upon by the small concurrent crises impacting an in-over-his-head medical transport driver, it would still be one of the best films of the year. Mangold stages the 24 Hours of Le Mans race with an action director’s command of suspense, but he pays plenty of attention to his characters, too. The ending falls a little flat and some of the improv can be hit or miss, but Sword Of Trust proves to mostly be a funny and surprisingly deep ride, and a return to form for Shelton, getting back into her Humpday groove. The Last Black Man In San Francisco’s multifaceted questions about belonging are answered by a staggeringly tragic conclusion that argues, bleakly but believably, that no amount of culture can rival capital. But it’s nowhere near the total number that actually hit theaters or popped up on streaming platforms over the last 11 months. Painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) challenges the limits placed on female artists in the 18th century, while young noblewoman Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) refuses to sit for a portrait that’s part of an arranged marriage she doesn’t want. Climax11. Packed with memorable supporting characters (and impressive turns from newcomers like Julia Fox, Keith Williams Richards, and NBA star Kevin Garnett, who plays himself), Uncut Gems establishes the Safdies as masters of anxious existential grit; their style of overlapping dialogue and tension feels like the unlikely fusion of Robert Altman and Abel Ferrara. Great Margot Robbie performance though. Uncut Gems2. Which it is. HBO had a real job of work on its hands when it decided to give over seven hours of programming to an adaptation of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels In America.There were those who thought that Kushner, adapting his own work, would get overindulgent, and others who thought the play—written a dozen … Though his behavior adapts to fit his new surroundings, his personality remains defiantly static. Everything you ever wanted to know about Reviews - Comedy. On his album of the same name, Dutch R&B artist Benny Sings reclaims the concept from YouTube compilations and vaporwave samplists, crafting a stretch of lithe, funky pop cuts held together by his translucent voice and categorically masterful musicianship. Hustlers8. 555. Mine has to be Waves, Trey Edward Shults’s miserablist soap opera of all-American suffering. I Lost My Body13. AV Club - the Best Films of 2019 So Far show list info "To mark the midway point of 2019, The A.V. The Nightingale12. The script is a goldmine of delectable language, from the motley Manchester dialect of the peasantry to the ornate, bloviating speech of the aristocracy. 12/16/19 8:00AM. (Specifically, it came out of the Fantasia Film Festival, where it premiered after I’d left for the year.) Belmonte11. Parasite5. The Nightingale. This to me will be in my top 10 films of the year no matter what genre. By the time Phillips was coyly telling journalists that maybe Joker wasn’t about the Joker, the movie’s hollowness was clear. The A.V. In both cases, though, the conviction is missing, and crazed ambition leads only to hollow tedium. Soderbergh cosplaying as Adam McKay is the absolute wrong choice for an explanation of the Panama Papers; the film is too disjointed, with characters breaking the fourth wall and opulence masquerading as satire, to connect with viewers. Club collected ballots from our regular stable of reviewers and then aggregated them, weighing both the number of contributors who shortlisted a film and where each of them placed it on their own ranked rundown. Club has gone back chronologically through the last few months, beginning in January, and singled out our favorites, noting how and where they can be watched. Explaining why, however, would involve spoiling some of the film’s crucial twists. There’s a certain theatricality to this approach, but it creates a truly indelible portrait of an artist—and mother—in turmoil. Her Smell15. Not nothing, but not a lot either. It’s an admission that would leave Fox Mulder crestfallen, but comes across like a glimmer of therapeutic hope in James Gray’s bluntly sentimental, visually spectacular sci-fi melodrama about a stoic spaceman crossing the solar system in search of a father who never taught him how to handle his feelings. What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?13. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky], In Noah Baumbach’s most complete picture to date, the stalwart indie filmmaker combines the vivid slice-of-life vignettes of Frances Ha with the unflinching self-examination of The Squid And The Whale. Toy Story 413. In My Room9. The Souvenir10. But owing to Veiroj’s dynamic direction, distinctive compositions, and tender view of his characters, the result is a character study that’s as memorable as it is modest. The mythic imagery never undercuts the human stakes—the way writer-director Alejandro Landes divides our sympathies between Julianne Nicholson’s imprisoned engineer and her tragically conscripted child captors. After a famous mystery novelist dies of an apparent (but very suspicious) suicide on his 85th birthday, an anachronistic “gentleman sleuth” (Daniel Craig) arrives to investigate the family of the deceased—a rogues’ gallery of useless modern-day aristocrats that includes a trust-fund playboy, an “alt-right” shitposter, and a New Age lifestyle guru. Having worked together on TV (Maron, Glow) and a stand-up special, director Lynn Shelton and comedian Marc Maron reunited for this low-delight about the perils of fake news, the latter in peak form, delivering sarcasm and heartbreak with ease. The meme-ification of movies continued unabated in 2019, when even some of the best films of the year—including our N. … Marriage Story. Under The Silver Lake12. Movies. And yet to watch The Irishman, his gangster opus to end all gangster opuses, is to be constantly reminded of the promise of mortality—his, ours, everyone’s. The 25 best films of 2019. Ash Is Purest White3. In Hollywood to really appreciate it. By the end of 2019, The A.V. An Elephant Sitting Still14. What emerges is a cautionary tale about the terrifying power of propaganda, as well as a clarion call for the importance of reproductive rights. It is so damn funny, so damn charming, so damn heartbreaking, so damn encouraging, and of course so damn awesome. [Roxana Hadadi], A young woman is abandoned by her lover, only to fall for a man who looks just like him some years later, triggering a series of emotional dilemmas pestered by the memory of her first romance. Mediocre men who think they’re geniuses are a dime a dozen, and so are David Lynch pastiches that mistake being complicated for being deep. [A.A. Dowd]. Us11. The 100 best TV shows of the 2010s. Whether through a reluctance to call something a masterpiece too quickly or because they just hadn’t yet seen all the pertinent triumphs, our contributors went light on films from the past few months. Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood4. I’ll be the first to admit that Wesley Snipes is hilarious playing against type as reluctant actor and director D’Urville Martin, but little else about Craig Brewer’s star-studded Netflick lives up to its potential. This is a vision of space travel that completely rejects the square-jawed, all-American NASA paradigm, populating its self-sustaining spacecraft en route to intergalactic oblivion with a crew of dirtbag convicts that includes Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth, and Andre Benjamin. Best Movies of 2019. Eventually, they’re driven into the jungle below, where their makeshift adolescent society begins to unravel. The 25 best films of 2019. The Farewell11. A scientist (Emily Beecham) breeds a flower that makes those sniffing it feel a deep contentedness, and then suspects it of brainwashing everyone around her. But there’s a kind of blissful transcendence in watching this diverse dance troupe’s ecstatic movements, accompanied by the director’s aggressive yet elegant orchestrations of light and sensation. Even the serial killers preach the dangers of sexual assault. I have to say, though, I agree with the Croisette on this one: The film’s a self-indulgent mess, centering on a character who’s not interesting enough to earn his obnoxious onscreen behavior. But if a filmmaker wants to cast himself as a pathetically insecure, controlling cuck, and throw in footage of bulls or whatever, I’m all for it. Their provocation was in service of a film that takes zero risks whatsoever; that is gleeful in its celebration of a song by a convicted sex offender; that equates mental illness with murder; and that cannot, from scene to scene, say anything poignant or meaningful about the state of modern American society, social isolation, or economic disenfranchisement. By Dana Stevens. Director Kirill Mikhanovsky understands there’s simple nobility in driving people to places they can’t otherwise get to themselves, especially when doing so is a massive inconvenience. The Nightingale13. 1. Long Day’s Journey Into Night. HBO Max really wants to take the lead as the best streaming service—and, honestly, it’s going to be tough to beat it this spring. High Flying Bird3. Eddie Murphy’s hyper-charismatic take on Rudy Ray Moore feels at odds with the irony and offbeat cool of the blaxploitation star, and funnymen Keegan-Micheal Key and Craig Robinson go criminally underused. “They invented a game on top of a game,” says Bill Duke’s Coach Spencer of the capitalist structure of professional sports. Awkwafina gives an alternately funny and heartbreaking lead performance, as a nonconformist New York artist who finds this whole scheme ridiculous and who could, at any minute, blow it all up. Best Of. In the foggy mountains of what could be Colombia, teenage militants guard an American hostage. Uncut Gems14. Transit6. No other 2019 movie spoke so clearly to the mess we find ourselvEs in. Club offer, as a rejoinder, the number of worthy shows that aren’t on the list below. Maybe it’s PTSD from enduring George Sluizer’s second shot at The Vanishing, in which he inexplicably jettisoned everything that was great about the Dutch version. They’re also provocatively sexual and strange, as Denis stares into the void and finds little to inspire hope. The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in “city pop,” the Japanese subgenre of sprightly, polyglot ’80s pop. Never descending into xenophobia or condescension, their documentary makes the point that the issues matter because of the effect they have on the people. The four-hour runtime, gray-beige color palette, and nonstop waves of misery warded off all but the most tenacious, and those choosing to see it through to the credits weren’t rewarded with any hard-won kernel of comfort. The three-hour extravaganza of Pavlovian fan service that unseated Avatar to become the highest grossing film of all time. Knives Out9. All the same, it finds fresh wonders up there, from lunar pirates to fast-food franchises gone intergalactic. But Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria Bell is nearly as good as his earlier Gloria, and Julianne Moore does justice to the title role without attempting to mimic Paulina García’s sublime performance. Dolemite Is My Name. As a made-for-TV follow-up, it’d make for perfectly fine afternoon viewing. Knives Out2. Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood3. Us also makes a perfect class-vengeance-from-below double feature with #3 on this very list. The sexual assault allegations against eccentric French action auteur Luc Besson make it difficult right now to recommend his movies, even to longtime devotees. Little Women5. (It may even exacerbate them.) Under The Silver Lake4. My initial review of this Robert Rodriguez/James Cameron collaboration reflects both its high entertainment value and unwieldy, exposition-packed story. Radhika Apte has a strong command of her character as a smartly scheming femme fatale, but the film is utterly Patel’s, and his darkly efficient, alluringly sexy turn as a hired gun should only amplify those calls for Bond consideration. Film Twitter has long championed Dev Patel as a potential choice for the next choice for James Bond, and there is no stronger audition tape than the Michael Winterbottom thriller The Wedding Guest. Knives Out12. Over the years, Jennifer Lopez has been consistently underrated as an actor, which is part of why it’s satisfying to see her command the screen as the fierce den mother to a money-mad crew of exotic dancers. Initially declared a failure after its disastrous premiere at Cannes in 2018, Under The Silver Lake has since gained a cult of critical followers substantial enough to propel it to #10 on The A.V. As someone who’s spent the past two years exploring the history of romantic comedies, I’m always skeptical of films that set out to satirize a genre that already carries an unfair amount of cultural baggage. Paddleton15. That’s the basic premise of Asako I & II, which can’t help but appear slight in comparison to its director’s last film, the acclaimed five-hour family drama Happy Hour (2015). It’s truer in 2018 than it was in 2017, or 2016, or 2015: Any survey of the year’s best TV can only provide a tiny sampling of the finest the medium had to offer. Jia may have made his reputation on depictions of modern ennui, but he stands now as one of his generation’s finest directors of sincere melodrama. His vision is of organized labor, worker solidarity, and profound upheaval, and Moonlight playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney deftly moves Ray from penthouse offices to community courts as he criticizes each component of this multibillion-dollar system. And Theron has wonderful chemistry with her costar, Seth Rogen. This slickly glib, frustratingly simplistic look at sexual harassment at Fox News is pretty much everything I feared we’d get from the all-but-inevitable wave of movies about the #MeToo movement. Watching the movie, it’s hard to shake the feeling that Scorsese has picked his. When the Mexican consulate mistakes him for the man in question, Georg assumes his identity and takes his boat ticket out of the country, but ends up wrestling with the deception after he falls in love with the writer’s wife (Paula Beer). This choice engenders a hazy sense of cognitive dissonance that perfectly meshes with his characters’ anxious, transitional state. Sometimes the messiness is the point. But right from his opening shot, a morbid parody of the Copacabana sequence in Goodfellas, Scorsese foregrounds the inevitable. Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood2. While most of the country still doesn’t have access to movie theaters (and having movie theaters open in certain cities doesn’t mean it’s actually safe yet! Relaxer14. I’m sort of the cheese that stands alone on this one, I know, but wow, I just didn’t connect with Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood. As a big screen event, however, it never justifies bringing these toys back out of the box. [Katie Rife], One day, Martin Scorsese will die. Also think of it as an asterisk on that 2010s retrospective, celebrating the films we knew were great then and—in the case of our late-breaking #1 of the year—the ones we’ve rallied around since. 1. The film faltered in the shadow of Danny Boyle’s inferior Yesterday, because apparently American audiences can’t handle two movies with brown leads in the same summer. Putting out two movies in one year is a classic Steven Soderbergh move, but there hasn’t been a gap in quality between his same-year films as broad as the one between High Flying Bird, one of the best films of 2019, and The Laundromat, one of the most embarrassing. [Noel Murray], At the beginning of Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, a family’s cramped basement apartment fills with menacing-looking fumigation chemicals, and for a moment it seems that this might be one of the writer-director’s more overtly fantastical horror shows, like The Host or Snowpiercer. Club staff and contributors still took on the task, submitting ranked ballots of our top 15 shows to bring you the 25 best shows of 2020. [Jesse Hassenger], Last year, Sorry To Bother You and Blindspotting examined Bay Area gentrification with contrasting absurdity and sincerity. But between the its calculated script, its familiar themes, and Bong’s clockwork direction, Parasite doesn’t have much room for anything but its own virtuosity; plot twists abound, but there’s no real sense of surprise. To be honest, I’m as susceptible to this stuff as anyone else, but I still think that the current market dominance of Disney product (whether it’s Marvel, Star Wars, or those awful live-action remakes) has had an overwhelmingly negative impact on Hollywood and on movie audiences. The Souvenir8. This year, like any other, The A.V. 24, 2020: We’ve added where you can stream the films that previously were not available to stream on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu, and/or Apple TV. Even at 100 selections, the list couldn’t hope to capture the full scope of 10 years of cinema—as plenty were eager to inform us, we excluded tons of notable movies, dammit. First Love7. Not a movie that necessarily needed to be made, but a significantly better one than I’d expected. And yes, writer-director Lorene Scafaria tells this tale of vengeful strippers with energy and pizazz. Her Smell4. But Part 1, consisting of the first two episodes, would have been my #2 for the year. So I couldn’t wait to see Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch, especially after learning that it’s a black-and-white, Academy-ratio two-hander starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, with both apparently speaking in antiquated English. Homecoming. Knives Out10. Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood5. News, stories, photos, videos and more. Such lumpy platitudes eventually give way to more noxious ideas, chief among them the notion that some Nazis just needed a friendly nudge in the right direction. [Caroline Siede], Elisabeth Moss hits such ferocious heights and depths as Becky Something, the self-destructive frontwoman of punk band Something She, that it’s easy to perceive Her Smell simply as a showcase for her intense performance. Writer-director Lulu Wang actually lived a real-life version of this story, and while she brings some ace comic timing to its wackier elements, her film is more of a gentle and relatable domestic portrait, shaded with an understanding of the many ways that families lie to each other. About a month ago, The A.V. With the world on fire, it’s no wonder so many major filmmakers are looking now to the stars. [Beatrice Loayza], Like the dashing, troubled Anthony (Tom Burke), The Souvenir is always hiding something. A Hidden Life15. 1. Parasite is not quite that, but its genius lies in the way it zigzags around some genres and zips straight through others; this is a con-artist movie and a farce, a family drama, and, yes, a horror movie of sorts, even if it’s not a creature feature. Even critics seemed unaware of the film’s release; had more of them seen it, I bet it would have popped up on a number of best-of lists this season. Us11. The film’s narrative progression and structural elisions are oddly conventional for Denis, and by the end of its lugubrious, logy middle section, I found myself alienated by its monomaniacal sense of portent. Transit4. 17 years later, Chadha offered just as much emotional complexity in Blinded By The Light, with a lovely breakout performance from Viveik Kalra and an impassioned soundtrack of Bruce Springsteen hits. The best movies of 2019 reflect the frustration of being on the fringe for most filmgoers, the conundrum of access and elitism that most people … So don’t just think of the list below, reflecting the individual tastes and consensus favorites of our 13 ballot-filing critics, as a salute to what 2019 had to offer theatergoers and streamers. But this is also a movie with a lot to say about indigenous identity in the 21st century, told through the story of two native women—one middle class and white-passing, the other working class and dark-skinned—who meet one afternoon on a Vancouver street corner. Scott Z. Burns’ look at an Obama-era investigation into the Bush-era CIA torture program captures a sentiment that feels more timely now than ever: the stunned disbelief that somehow even detailed documentation of incompetent, illegal government action isn’t enough to get anyone to do anything about it. On the flip side, I’m always downright eager to avoid English-language remakes of foreign films, even (or maybe especially) when the original director helms the new one as well. The two pieces complement each other, frequently pushing I Lost My Body toward the poetic and metaphorical. The Last Black Man In San Francisco8. Sorry Angel13. Peterloo12. But the rhythmic, sensuous pleasures that I’ve come to associate with the French director’s prodigious body of work are all but absent from High Life. Dec 06, 2019 5:40 AM. Although he cannibalizes Casablanca, mid-’50s Hitchcock, and Kafka, Petzold paints a portrait of romance and displacement amid national unrest that feels entirely his own. Taika Waititi’s self-proclaimed “anti-hate satire” (a bold stance, anti-hatred!) (The Greek gods were horny, too.) But apart from that, I just don’t get what so many of my fellow critics saw in Toy Story 4, a thoroughly unnecessary sequel with a lame antagonist and a story that sidelines too many of its major players in favor of giving Woody all the focus. Director Ulrich Köhler crafts a cosmic joke about how their relationship would play out the same way, with or without an apocalypse. Little Women14. These perspectives become even more sharply defined when you look at the individual ballots, which reveal both our consensus picks for the year’s best and our personal favorites. Critics prefer presumably autobiographical depictions of broken relationships when they come across as fair-minded and mature (see: Marriage Story), but if can’t extend the right to be indulgent and undisciplined to artists, then what’s the point? During a six-month lockout, agent Ray Burke (André Holland) plans to revolutionize how basketball is played. Yet I enjoyed every minute of this maximalist, oversaturated smorgasbord of 360-degree pans, changing aspect ratios, and Pitchfork-approved needle drops. Granted, hardly anyone was able to see Gemini Man as director Ang Lee intended, in the full glory of discomfitingly vivid 120fps projection—and even the sickest tech demo doesn’t bypass the clunky dialogue or sci-fi clichés. For most of this past decade, it felt like Richard Linklater could do anything; I’m a fan, even, of his previous film, the quasi-Last Detail sequel Last Flag Flying, which received some overly harsh reviews. Bombshell turns the complicated women of Fox News into one-note totems of female empowerment, all while patting itself on the back for the important work it’s doing. Parasite2. A major studio green-lighting a film that rivals Knives Out in its pointed contempt for the 1%, but with a significantly higher body count? Terrence Malick’s look at the life of WWII conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter was high on my list of most anticipated films, despite the fact that I hadn’t loved any of his features since The Tree Of Life. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire2. 1. Booksmart8. Gloria Bell15. That’s the act of violence that protagonist Reed (Christopher Abbott) must refrain from committing on his infant daughter, so he instead channels his homicidal impulses onto a sex worker (Mia Wasikowska). If I’m a little more forgiving of Joker than some of my AVC colleagues, it’s because that self-serious bad-guy origin story at least plays different than the formulaic comic-book blockbusters now dropping off the assembly line every few weeks. But the Texas filmmaker ran smack into his limitations with this long-delayed Maria Semple adaptation, a quirky family drama that jettisons the mystery of its source material, leaving its audience with the larger mystery of figuring out—scene for scene—what’s being lost in translation. In My Room9. The massive Marvel machine routinely turns out entertaining movies, liberally sprinkled with fun character moments. Update Mar. But The A.V. Available for rent and purchase on Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, and Vudu. Parasite11. Parasite7. Knives Out13. Sophie Lorain’s French-Canadian teen sex comedy didn’t get much play in U.S. theaters—which is a shame, because it’s a shiny black-and-white gem. Marriage Story2. This father-daughter drama from Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj went largely unseen amidst the year’s steady rush of Netflix releases. Our Time13. Light Of My Life5. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. Sure, it’s got some funny parts, but so do most of the entries in the MCU corporate loyalty rewards program—some of which are even actual movies. Club will have reviewed over 350 movies released this year. In Hollywood. 8. And yeah, we made a little room for Hollywood, too. Though I guess I shouldn’t have been that surprised to like it, given the nuance and intelligence of Marielle Heller’s previous ripped-from-reality portrait of a cranky writer, Can You Ever Forgive Me? It’s a shame because, along with being very funny, The Day Shall Come has a strong progressive streak. Synonyms14. Roberto Minervini’s documentaries are immersive experiences, and with What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? The prospect of a Claire Denis space movie starring Robert Pattinson seemed like a sure bet—and since its release, the film has been well-received across the board. [Mike D’Angelo], Rian Johnson’s witty and phenomenally entertaining whodunit may have been inspired by classic Agatha Christie adaptations, but its underlying story of fortune and upward mobility owes more to Charles Dickens (who had his own fondness for mystery plots). With this expertly wrought period piece, Rick Alverson peels back the placid surface of midcentury Americana to reveal the squirming hotbed of anxiety, repression, and predation lying just beneath the “good ol’ days.” Good doctor Jeff Goldblum takes young ward Tye Sheridan on the road as he goes from hospital to hospital demonstrating his barbaric lobotomy technique; the banal horrors Sheridan witnesses along the way lay bare the ugliness of our national character. Uncut Gems7. Netflix’s strategy of buying up films and then ignoring them is always frustrating, but it can be fatal for a film like The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open. The Irishman4. He’s reckless, neurotic, self-deluding, an addict, equal parts sucker and scammer—and perhaps more like us than we’d care to admit. Little Women12. Wang organically develops this plot to a finale as tense and emotional as any in cinema this year. Maybe the future of studio horror movies is brighter than I thought. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood7. Top 50 Best Movies of 2017 . Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising. Sunset11. Parasite5. Yet, it exists. [Charles Bramesco]. [A.A. Dowd], Christian Petzold’s adaptation of a 1944 Anna Seghers novel collapses the past and the present into a liminal temporal space. [Allison Shoemaker]. Through meticulous costuming and production design, Tarantino rebuilds the Los Angeles of his childhood for Once Upon A Time, letting his vision of an unspoiled 1969 stand as a temple both to what was and what might have been. Anchored by the tremendous Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Hart’s film takes a bunch of familiar tropes and breathes new life into them by folding in issues of fear, addiction, and race. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson—joined by an all-star cast of supporting players—are at their best, bringing such nuance to their characters that the audience can see both why this couple fell in love and why they have to split. Jonathan Levine’s playful but sincerely felt rom-com seemed to vanish from the cultural consciousness not long after it arrived. [Katie Rife], For more than two decades, the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has chronicled the shifting mores and generational values of his home province of Shanxi with a poet’s sense of irony. Andy Muschietti’s 2017 version of It wasn’t the horror masterpiece some made it out to be, but at least it was scary. [Roxana Hadadi], In My Room sports a familiar post-apocalyptic scenario: a man wakes up to discover he’s seemingly the last person on Earth, and following a period of reckless freedom, decides to make the best of it. Some folks mistook the protagonist’s paranoid, borderLine misogynistic viewpoint for the film’s, but Mitchell is unmistakably ridiculing thE prevalence of outlandish conspiracy Theories, even as he acknowledges their vIsceral appeal (and throws in nuMerous coded puzzles for fans to solve). Writer N.K. Luce12. Asako I & II11. 5.7. AV Club's Most Anticipated Movies of 2019 show list info This year, we've narrowed the list to 25 movies with official release dates: a mix of tantalizing blockbusters, the latest efforts from name directors, and a healthy number of films we've already seen (and liked). Hulu has announced what new things (and new to Hulu things) it’ll have available for streaming in March, and while there aren’t any big MCU tie-in shows like on that other Disney-owned streaming platform, it does have some notable new movies and TV shows.In a matter of weeks, Hulu subscribers will be able to check out Charles & Diana: 1983, Boss Level (starring Frank Grillo and, ugh, … Released on the streaming platform in late November after a handful of festival dates, the first film from Ava DuVernay’s distribution company ARRAY is so unassuming, you might not even notice that it’s composed of a handful of long takes stitched together to create the illusion of a single shot. The Souvenir12. Waves15. Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time, starring the director and his real-life wife as a married couple in an open relationship, has been described as an overlong therapy session. One Child Nation12. ... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys Women's History Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central ... X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi . The Irishman6. The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open15. Sunset8.