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

Hollywood Reporter: Jon Frosch: The Best Films of 2020

15 December 2020

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Eliza Hittman

Jon Frosch: The Best Films of 2020, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  2. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  3. An Easy Girl
    Rebecca Zlotowski
  4. Ammonite
    Francis Lee
  5. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
  6. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
  7. The Climb
    Michael Angelo Covino
  8. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  9. The Surrogate
    Jeremy Hersh
  10. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee

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