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Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2020

21 January 2021

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2020, as reconstructed by Mike D’Angelo for Filmmaker Magazine

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  1. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  3. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  5. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  6. Time
    Garrett Bradley
  7. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  8. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  9. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  10. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
  11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
  12. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
  13. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  14. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  15. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
  16. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
  17. The Nest
    Sean Durkin
  18. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
  19. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  20. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
  21. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
  22. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  23. Driveways
    Andrew Ahn
  24. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt
  25. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
  26. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
  27. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  28. I Was at Home, But…
    Angela Schanelec
  29. To the Ends of the Earth
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  30. The Grand Bizarre
    Jodie Mack
  31. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu
  32. The Father
    Florian Zeller
  33. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
  34. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
  35. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
  36. Soul
    Pete Docter
  37. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
  38. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
  39. Sorry We Missed You
    Ken Loach
  40. Saint Frances
    Alex Thompson
  41. Let Them All Talk
    Steven Soderbergh
  42. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
  43. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
  44. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
  45. A White, White Day
    Hlynur Pálmason
  46. Malmkrog
    Cristi Puiu
  47. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
  48. Swallow
    Carlo Mirabella-Davis
  49. An Easy Girl
    Rebecca Zlotowski
  50. Bad Education
    Cory Finley

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