My wife and I had a new baby in February of this year, which made it impossible for me to complete my usual task of watching all the movies; or at least enough that I can feel good about unequivocally recommending ten of them.

My wife and I had a new baby in February of this year, which made it impossible for me to complete my usual task of watching all the movies; or at least enough that I can feel good about unequivocally recommending ten of them. 

Behold, a Child!

I did watch a few I really liked this year, though. Here they are, in alphabetical order...

Some of my favorite movies from 2019:

• Guava Island (not really a feature, but super interesting)
• Klaus (new Christmas classic)
• Parasite (subtitled. get over it)
• Tell Me Who I Am (documentary)
• The King (superbly written, underrated Netflix original)

Some movies from 2018 (and before) that I got around to watching this year and liked:

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
• Free Solo (documentary)
• Leave No Trace
• Searching
• Woman at War

That's clearly not enough to keep you going for the whole next year, though, so here are a few favorites from the seven hundred and seventy movies I've watched in the past decade.* 

This is not a Best-Of list, because ranking art is silly. These are just some of the filmed entertainments I watched that stuck in my brain, and that I felt were fine exemplars of their respective genres.  

So without further ado... 

A few of my favorite movies that came out in the last decade, in alphabetical order, by somewhat arbitrary and permeable category:

4 Movies That Gave Me JOY:

• Dangal
• Hell or High Water
• La La Land
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Story

5 Movies That Made Me SHIVER and/or CRINGE:

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• A Quiet Place
• Headhunter
• Pontypool
• Revenge

6 Movies That Made Me CRY:

• Alamar
• Blue Jay
• Manchester By the Sea
• Midnight Special
• Mudbound
• Short Term 12

7 Movies That Made Me LAUGH:

• 7 Psychopaths
• I, Tonya
• Ladybird
• The Big Year
• The Disaster Artist
• The Nice Guys
• Thor: Ragnarok

8 Movies That Made Me REEVALUATE:

• Farmsteaders
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Sin Nombre
• SuperMensch
• The Florida Project
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• The Sessions
• Whiplash

9 Movies That Mostly Just Entertained Me and That's Cool:

• Attack the Block
• Black Kkklansmen

• Chronicle
• Room
• Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
• Take Shelter
• The Edge of Seventeen
• The Founder
• The Wave

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*Although I did watch a fair few movies from previous decades in the last 10 years, none were included in this sample. It's an arbitrary decision but hey, life is arbitrary.