Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

HuffPost: Matthew Jacobs: The 17 Best Movies of 2020

07 December 2020

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

Matthew Jacobs: The 17 Best Movies of 2020, as published by HuffPost along with "a handful of must-see performances"

[see also 2018 • 2017]

  1. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  2. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
  3. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  5. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  6. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
  7. Bad Education
    Cory Finley
  8. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  9. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  10. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
  11. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
  12. The Truffle Hunters
    Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
  13. Freaky
    Christopher Landon
  14. Driveways
    Andrew Ahn
  15. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  16. Shithouse
    Cooper Raiff
  17. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow

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