Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Rolling Stone: K. Austin Collins: Top 20 Movies of 2020

23 December 2020

Time - Garrett Bradley

K. Austin Collins: Top 20 Movies of 2020, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  2. Time
    Garrett Bradley
  3. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
  4. Fire Will Come
    Oliver Laxe
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
  6. Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
    Steve McQueen
  7. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
  8. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  9. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt
  10. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  11. Residue
    Merawi Gerima
  12. Tesla
    Michael Almereyda
  13. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  14. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  15. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
  16. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
  17. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
  18. Ham on Rye
    Tyler Taormina
  19. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  20. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Jason Woliner
  21. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
  22. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
  23. Mank
    David Fincher

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