Year-End Lists

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The Playlist: The 25 Best Films of 2020

26 December 2020

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

The Playlist: The 25 Best Films of 2020

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  2. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  5. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  6. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
  7. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  8. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  10. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  11. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
  12. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
  13. The Nest
    Sean Durkin
  14. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
  15. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  16. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  17. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  18. Soul
    Pete Docter
  19. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
  20. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
  21. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  22. Babyteeth
    Shannon Murphy
  23. Ema
    Pablo Larraín
  24. Boys State
    Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
  25. Mank
    David Fincher

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