It’s hard to believe that the first two decades of the 2000s are behind us!
Now that it’s 2020, here are my favorite movies that I saw in 2019. The list was held off because I was seeing one of the movies that made the list on New Year’s Eve!
Some of them were in the Oscar race last year since critics and those living in large metropolitan cities get to see movies before most of America!
Before I kick off my countdown, here’s my favorite movie I saw in 2018!
“CALL ME BY YOUR NAME”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $41.9 MILLION
Just missing out on the countdown: #40 “The Old Man and the Gun”; #39 “Beautiful Boy”; #38 “The Front Runner”; #37 “Hotel Artemis”; #36 “Gloria Bell”; #35 “Widows”; #34 “22 July”; #33 “At Eternity’s Gate”; #32 “The First Man”; and #31 “The Mule”.
At #30 “On The Basis of Sex”; #29 “Green Book”; #28 “Rocketman”; #27 “Boy Erased”; #26 “Us”; #25 “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”; #24 “Yesterday”; #23 “Mary Poppins Returns”; #22 “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” and #21 “If Beale Street Could Talk”.
Now, my favorite 20 movies I saw in 2019.
“THE FAVOURITE”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $96.0 MILLION
“A STAR IS BORN”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $434.9 MILLION
“A SIMPLE FAVOR”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $97.6 MILLION
“MIDSOMMAR”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $42.3 MILLION
“MA”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $60.6 MILLION
“LAST CHRISTMAS”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $118.5 MILLION
“SECOND ACT”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $72.3 MILLION
“BOMBSHELL”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $18.3 MILLION
“THE HATE U GIVE”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $34.9 MILLION
“HOTEL MUMBAI”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $21.3 MILLION
We’re halfway through the countdown of my favorite movies I saw in 2019.
As a bonus, here’s a look at one of my favorites movies of not only 1995, but one of my favorite movies of all time! I can’t believe it turned 25 this year!
(While the movie premiered in 1994 in its native Australia, it debuted in the United States in 1995!)
It also launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.
“BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $31.9 MILLION
“ARCTIC”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $4.1 MILLION
“ALADDIN”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $1.05 BILLION!!!
“A PRIVATE WAR”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $3.8 MILLION
“HUSTLERS”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $157.1 MILLION
“JUDY”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $37.9 MILLION
“THE WIFE”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $18.2 MILLION
“BEN IS BACK”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $10.1 MILLION
Before I reveal my two favorite movies I saw last year, I want to celebrate another one of my favorite movies that turned 25 in 2019!
I had just moved to Chicago in the summer of 1994 and I remember feeling so metropolitan seeing a LGBTQ movie on the big screen that fall!
Ironically, I featured another Australian movie earlier with “Muriel’s Wedding” and now it’s “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”.
Guy Pearce was so beautiful as Adam Whitely/Felicia Jollygoodfellow!
The movie won an Oscar for “Best Costume Design”!
“CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $12.4 MILLION
Before I reveal my favorite movie that I saw in 2019, the two least favorite movies I saw this year were: “Vice” (great acting, cheesy movie about evil people) and “Good Boys” (just the worst — I laughed once)!
For “Good Boys”, watch the funnier trailer instead and don’t waste 90 minutes of your life!
Now back to the countdown!
“THE FAREWELL”
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $19.6 MILLION
Now, on to the new year!
Oscar nominations will be announced on Monday, January 13, 2020.
THAT’S IT
With all the craziness in the world, make it the best in your little part of it!
Anthony
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