Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2020 Movies

Atlantic: David Sims: The 10 Best Films of 2020

12 December 2020

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

David Sims: The 10 Best Films of 2020, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

  1. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  3. The Nest
    Sean Durkin
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  5. Mank
    David Fincher
  6. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  7. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  8. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  10. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee

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