Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Movies of 2020

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1. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
2. Sound of Metal
   Darius Marder
3. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Soul
   Pete Docter
5. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
6. Wolfwalkers
   Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
7. The Vast of Night
   Andrew Patterson
8. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
9. His House
   Remi Weekes
10. Time
    Garrett Bradley
11. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
12. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
13. Emma.
    Autumn de Wilde
14. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
15. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
16. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
17. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
18. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
19. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
20. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
21. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
22. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
23. The Wolf House
    Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
24. The Nest
    Sean Durkin
25. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
26. Yes, God, Yes
    Karen Maine
27. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
28. One Night in Miami
    Regina King
29. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
30. Family Romance, LLC
    Werner Herzog
31. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
32. The Wild Goose Lake
    Diao Yinan
33. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu
34. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
35. Driveways
    Andrew Ahn
36. The History of the Seattle Mariners
    Jon Bois
37. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
38. Koko-di Koko-da
    Johannes Nyholm
39. Sorry We Missed You
    Ken Loach
40. Premature
    Rashaad Ernesto Green
41. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
42. Freaky
    Christopher Landon
43. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
44. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
    Richard Phelan and Will Becher
45. La Llorona
    Jayro Bustamante
46. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
47. News of the World
    Paul Greengrass
48. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola
49. Zombi Child
    Bertrand Bonello
50. Banana Split
    Benjamin Kasulke