The 20 Best Movies of 2019 So Far
and Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – July 3, 2019
Which films have impressed critics the most during the first half of the year? Above, we rank the best-reviewed movies released in theaters between January 1, 2019 and June 30, 2019 by Metascore. Films must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible.
Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out is another commercial and critical success, while upping the scare quotient. Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Evan Alex portray members of a family whose summer getaway is interrupted by four terrifying visitors: doppelgängers of themselves. How will they survive, and what’s behind this attack?
“Once again, the director draws upon the sketch-comedy gifts he honed on “Key & Peele” to achieve an artful, ruthless balance of horror and hilarity. Us is a tour de force of comic tension and visceral release, a movie that weaponizes our chuckles against us and reminds us that laughing, screaming and thinking are not mutually exclusive pleasures.” —Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times