Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Boston Globe: Ty Burr: Best Movies of 2020

18 December 2020

Small Axe: Lovers Rock - Steve McQueen

Ty Burr: Best Movies of 2020, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  2. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  4. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
  5. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  7. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  8. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  9. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
  10. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross

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