Dan's top 10 favorite movies from 2019
It feels like Avengers: Endgame came out years ago. Was it really just this past spring? But it would hardly matter what year it came out -- it would have been the best movie.
Here's my top 10. I'm not going to just pick the 10 movies I rated the highest. (I gave Uncut Gems an A, but I hated it.) These are the movies that stood out to me.
Avengers: Endgame Has there been a movie with greater expectations? Perhaps Star Wars: Phantom Menace, and we know how that turned out. I feel like the Russo Brothers, and everyone involved with Endgame should get a standing ovation. They took those expectations and surpassed them. And this came only two short weeks after the utter failure that was the Game of Thrones series finale. With everything going on in the world it was such a relief to not be disappointed.
Yesterday What a charming movie, as one would expect from Richard Curtis, the writer of Love, Actually. This is my favorite of all the movies from 2019 that aren't three-plus hours long.
Ford v Ferrari Everything about this movie was spot on. The only reason it's not higher on the list is that the story itself isn't particularly inspiring. At least not to me. But as movies go, this one didn't miss a beat. It couldn't have been better.
Toy Story 4 Another movie with high expectations and another hit. It was brave of the writers to close -- we think -- the Toy Story saga on such a transcendental note. I like it.
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood Some of this movie was hard to watch, but that's Tarantino.
Spies in Disguise I think this might have gone overlooked. It was fun to watch and the message was fresh.
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw There's no doubt that this is a formulaic action/comedy. But it's formulaic done right.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters I feel no shame in admitting that I'm a Kaiju groupie.
Long Shot I don't get to see a lot of comedy/romance movies, but I'm glad I caught this one. It's not Romancing the Stone good. But it was good.
Terminator: Dark Fate I know this one didn't perform up to expectations, and the writers definitely made some questionable calls on character development and arc. But looking past that, the good outweighed the bad.
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