Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Rolling Stone: The 20 Best Movies of 2020

11 December 2020

Rolling Stone: The 20 Best Movies of 2020

[see also 2010s]

  1. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
  2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  3. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  4. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  5. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  6. Time
    Garrett Bradley
  7. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  8. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  9. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  10. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  11. Tigertail
    Alan Yang
  12. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  13. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  14. Night of the Kings
    Philippe Lacôte
  15. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
  16. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
  17. Boys State
    Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
  18. La Llorona
    Jayro Bustamante
  19. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  20. Mank
    David Fincher

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