Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Vox: Alissa Wilkinson: The 25 Best Movies of 2020

17 December 2020

The Painter and the Thief - Benjamin Ree

Alissa Wilkinson: The 25 Best Movies of 2020, as published by Vox

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
  2. Mayor
    David Osit
  3. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  5. Driveways
    Andrew Ahn
  6. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  7. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
  8. Time
    Garrett Bradley
  9. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  10. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
  12. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
  13. Scheme Birds
    Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin
  14. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
  15. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
  16. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  17. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  18. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
  19. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  20. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
  21. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
  22. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
  23. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
  24. South Mountain
    Hilary Brougher
  25. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Dean Parisot

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