Year-End Lists

Sean Burns: The 10 Best Films from 2020, as published by WBUR’s The ARTery

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• Bacurau
  Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
• Collective
  Alexander Nanau
• First Cow
  Kelly Reichardt
• Beanpole
  Kantemir Balagov
• City Hall
  Frederick Wiseman
• Small Axe: Lovers Rock
  Steve McQueen
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  Charlie Kaufman
• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  Eliza Hittman
• David Byrne's American Utopia
  Spike Lee

Honorable Mentions

• Another Round
  Thomas Vinterberg
• Da 5 Bloods
  Spike Lee
• Lingua Franca
  Isabel Sandoval
• On the Rocks
  Sofia Coppola
• The Painted Bird
  Václav Marhoul

This list contributes to:

• Top 50 Films of 2020 Filmmaker Magazine · Village Voice Film Poll