My Top 10 Motion Pictures (+10) For 2019

It turned out to be a pretty terrific year for film. Movies you can watch repeatedly and keep mining new stuff and reassessing old without getting bored.

I stuck to 20 motion pictures, overall. Two sets of 10. And the only hierarchical order within the two groups is for my top choice.

Top 10 Motion Pictures of 2020, Top Pick, then alphabetical order

#1 (Tie, alphabetical) 1917 - One of the great clock movies of all time, s never loses sight of the ultimate goal of the journey, but does shift gears throughout to take the audience through a wide range of emotions. The film also universalizes the enemy, mostly by their physical absence through most of the running time, which in turn allows a film with very, very specific tasks to be a reflection on the sanctity and immediacy of life (and death). We are not asked to identify with specific behaviors of the people we meet, so much as to recognize what is human in each of them and then, as people do, to move on. We are all someone's child, some…