Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips: Top 10 Movies of 2020

16 December 2020

Small Axe: Lovers Rock - Steve McQueen

Michael Phillips: Top 10 Movies of 2020, as published by The Chicago Tribune

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  2. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  4. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  5. City So Real
    Steve James
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
  7. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  8. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
  9. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman

Runners-up, 11-20, in alphabetical order

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