Best-Reviewed TV & Streaming Movies 2019
Watch out Al Swearengen: the Beyhive might be coming for you when it learns that HBO’s long-anticipated Deadwood: The Movie just nudged out Beyonce’s Homecoming for Best TV Movie of 2019. Bey wasn’t the only musician on the list; Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese blended concert footage, fictional, and non-fictional material to imaginatively capture America in 1975. Elsewhere, Steven Soderbergh teamed with writer Tarell Alvin McCraney (who wrote the play on which Moonlight was based) for Free Flying Bird and director Eva Orner exposed the man behind hot yoga in Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, both released on Netflix.
The order of the rank below reflects the Adjusted Score as of December 31, 2019. Scores might change over time.
#1
Adjusted Score: 101941%
Critics Consensus: A triumphant coda to a beloved series, Deadwood: The Movie will satisfy fans longing for a little f---ing closure.
Synopsis: Saloon owner Al Swearengen clashes with Sheriff Seth Bullock as the residents of Deadwood celebrate South Dakota's statehood in 1889....
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#2
Adjusted Score: 100055%
Critics Consensus: Beychella forever.
Synopsis: This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement....
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#3
Adjusted Score: 97722%
Critics Consensus: High Flying Bird takes a thoughtful and engrossing look at professional sports that sees Steven Soderbergh continuing to test the limits of new filmmaking technology.
Synopsis: A sports agent pitches a controversial business opportunity to a rookie basketball player during a lockout....
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#4
Adjusted Score: 96333%
Critics Consensus: By exposing the corrupt systems which enabled him, Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator paints a disturbing -- and necessary -- portrait of the cycles of abuse endured by countless followers of the charlatan at its center.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Eva Orner examines the dramatic rise and fall of hot yoga founder, Bikram Choudhury. Orner covers many of the...
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#5
Adjusted Score: 96388%
Critics Consensus: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese lives up to its unwieldy title with a delightfully unorthodox look at a pivotal period in its subject's career.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Martin Scorsese chronicles the troubled spirit of America in 1975 along with the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed...
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