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The Best Movies of 2019 So Far...

'Midsommar' is one of my favorite movies ever, and stands atop the list of the best of 2019 so far.

By Sean PatrickPublished 5 years ago 2 min read
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I’ve seen more than 73 wide releases in 2019, but according to Wikipedia, these are the wide release movies and Netflix releases that I have seen this year between January first and July 15, 2019. This seems like the perfect time to look at the list, and see where we are in 2019 in terms of the wide releases of the year. What can we learn, what has 2019 wrought at the multiplex.

Horror is having a good 2019 with two of the top three movies of 2019 emerging from the horror genre, and a third horror movie, Happy Death Day 2U lingering just outside the top 10. Midsommar and Us would be 1 and 2 on this list if not for a movie that I feel as if I am the only person who has seen it, and knows it exists. Daddy Issues is a transgressively sexual, in your face modern romantic comedy. It’s the kind of challenging modern movie that likely cannot be appreciated in its time, as it captures so much of modern sexuality and culture that it is perhaps too modern, so of its time that it cannot be seen fully until a few years pass.

Classic rock n’ roll is having a good year at the movies. Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, and Yesterday, a movie about the music of The Beatles are each in my Top 10, and not just because I am a big Elton or Beatles fan. Both movies use the music to elevate the story being told, but the music doesn't completely dominate that story. Rocketman is a musical that requires a great deal of fantasy to incorporate the music of Elton John and yet, the music never dominates the drama, and we get a great sense of the life of Elton John with the music as a dominant, but not all consuming aspect.

Superheroes are also having a great year with even DC turning out a solid effort in Shazam, which is surprisingly still in my Top 20 movies of the year. Captain Marvel has stayed with me in ways I didn’t expect, and ranks ahead of Avengers: Endgame despite that film’s massive cultural and artistic impact as the final film of the first phase of what has been a remarkable, historic run of Superhero movies.

At the bottom of the list are movies you would expect from Tyler Perry, and horror remakes from the 80s like Pet Cemetery and Child’s Play. What I did not predict or expect was how much I truly despised the remake of Hellboy. I used a website called RankingEngine.PubMeeple.com to create this list, and the site uses a format that has you decide between two options at once, and once you have completed your choices between however many options you enter, the site spits out a list based on your preferences.

Throughout the choosing process I kept finding myself picking against Hellboy over and over until finally, there it was at the bottom of the list because I hated it so very much. So, here’s the list of my ranking of the Best and Worst Wide Release features of 2019, and Daddy Issues, because I couldn’t not rank it.

  1. Midsommar
  2. Daddy Issues
  3. Us
  4. Rocketman
  5. Yesterday
  6. Tolkien
  7. Booksmart
  8. John Wick 3: Parabellum
  9. Isn't It Romantic
  10. Captain Marvel
  11. Happy Death Day 2U
  12. Avengers Endgame
  13. Long Shot
  14. Toy Story 4
  15. Spider-Man Far from Home
  16. Late Night
  17. Always Be My Maybe
  18. Shazam!
  19. The Sun is Also a Star
  20. Escape Room
  21. The Kid
  22. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
  23. Velvet Buzzsaw
  24. Triple Frontier
  25. The Upside
  26. Stuber
  27. Pokemon Detective Pikachu
  28. Dumbo
  29. How to Train Your Dragon The Hidden World
  30. Aladdin
  31. Fighting with My Family
  32. The Hustle
  33. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
  34. The Secret Life of Pets 2
  35. Annabelle Comes Home
  36. Five Feet Apart
  37. Missing Link
  38. Breakthrough
  39. Little
  40. Dark Phoenix
  41. Anna
  42. Men in Black International
  43. Cold Pursuit
  44. Alita: Battle Angel
  45. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
  46. Poms
  47. Brightburn
  48. Uglydolls
  49. The Dead Don't Die
  50. The Beach Bum
  51. What Men Want
  52. Serenity
  53. Miss Bala
  54. The Prodigy
  55. Crawl
  56. Captive State
  57. Glass
  58. After
  59. The Curse of La Llarona
  60. Child's Play
  61. Ma
  62. A Dog's Way Home
  63. A Dog's Journey
  64. Wonder Park
  65. The Best of Enemies
  66. The Intruder
  67. Shaft
  68. The Dirt
  69. Greta
  70. Pet Cemetery
  71. Replicas
  72. Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral
  73. Hellboy

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About the Creator

Sean Patrick

Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.

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