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

Washington Post: Ann Hornaday: Best Movies of 2020

08 December 2020

Small Axe - Steve McQueen

Ann Hornaday: Best Movies of 2020, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

  1. Small Axe
    Steve McQueen
  2. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  3. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  4. Miss Juneteenth
    Channing Godfrey Peoples
  5. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci
  6. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
  7. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  8. The Half of It
    Alice Wu
  9. The Trip to Greece
    Michael Winterbottom
  10. Host
    Rob Savage

The year's five best documentaries

  1. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
  2. The Fight
    Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
  3. 76 days
    Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
  4. Coup 53
    Taghi Amirani
  5. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson

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