Tom Hanks captains a destroyer in the World War II movie “Greyhound” (which he also wrote the screenplay for). Here’s how it ranks against the rest of the best movies of 2019 so far:
15. “The Lodge”: In the bleak horror tale, Grace (Riley Keough), still haunted by her childhood being the only survivor of a religious death cult, gets trapped with her fiancé’s kids in a remote house.
14. “The Half of It”: Leah Lewis stars as introverted and closeted Ellie who’s hired by painfully inarticulate tight end Paul (Daniel Diemer) to write a love letter to his crush. But it turns out Ellie likes her, too, in the teen coming-of-age comedy.
13. “The Painter and the Thief”: The documentary chronicles the unexpected friendship that develops between Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova and Norwegian junkie Karl-Bertil Nordland, who with another man stole two of her favorite pieces from an Oslo gallery.
12. “Greyhound”: Tom Hanks stars as the commander of a Navy destroyer leading a convoy of Allied ships. He wrestles with a wolfpack of Nazi submarines and his own insecurities in the World War II thriller.
11. “Selah and the Spades”: Selah (Lovie Simone) balances college plans and running the Spades, a powerful drug-dealing clique at a private Pennsylvania prep school, in writer/director Tayarisha Poe’s feature debut.
10. “Shirley”: In the psychologically twisted drama, Elisabeth Moss (with Michael Stuhlbarg) plays famed horror writer Shirley Jackson who’s working on a new novel while also messing with the head of a naive woman living in their house.
9. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: A small-town Pennsylvania teenager (Sidney Flanigan) takes a bus to New York City with her cousin to terminate her pregnancy in writer/director Eliza Hittman’s abortion drama.
8. “Tigertail”: A stoic Taiwanese man (Tzi Ma) struggles to connect with his workaholic daughter (Christine Ko) while revisiting his fateful decision years earlier to leave love behind and travel to America in Alan Yang’s decades-spanning family drama.
7. “Bacurau”: Udo Kier (with Sonia Braga) plays the leader of a mysterious band of marauders who invade a small Brazilian village – and find out their victims have some fight in them – in the thriller with sci-fi, Western and B-movie overtones.
6. “The Assistant”: Julia Garner plays a young junior assistant and aspiring film producer who works for a womanizing entertainment mogul and learns how toxic the culture is around her in Kitty Green’s drama.
5. “True History of the Kelly Gang”: George MacKay stars as notorious 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly in a visually arresting punk-rock biopic that follows the polarizing figure from innocent Irish lad to anarchic rebel.
4. “Hamilton”: Daveed Diggs sings and dances as Thomas Jefferson in a filmed production featuring the original cast of the Broadway sensation, created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton.
3. “The Vast of Night”: In small-town 1950s New Mexico, a local radio DJ (Jake Horowitz) and a spunky young switchboard operator (Sierra McCormick) investigate a weird and mysterious audio frequency in the throwback sci-fi film.
2. “The Invisible Man”: A traumatized woman (Elisabeth Moss) finds no one believes her when she insists her sociopathic ex faked a suicide and haunts her as an unseen antagonist in a timely revamp of the classic Universal movie monster.
1. “Da 5 Bloods”: Isiah Whitlock Jr. (far left), Norm Lewis, Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters and Jonathan Majors star in Spike Lee’s war drama about Black vets who return to Vietnam for treasure and the remains of their fallen squad leader.
