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2020 Movies

AP: Jake Coyle: Best Films of 2020

08 December 2020

Jake Coyle: Best Films of 2020, as published by Associated Press

[see also 2021]

  1. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  2. Small Axe
    Steve McQueen
  3. Mank
    David Fincher
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  5. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  6. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  8. Soul
    Pete Docter
  9. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
  10. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder

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