Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Hollywood Reporter: Sheri Linden: The Best Films of 2020

15 December 2020

Beanpole - Kantemir Balagov

Sheri Linden: The Best Films of 2020, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

  1. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  2. Gunda
    Viktor Kosakovskiy
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  4. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
  5. One Night in Miami
    Regina King
  6. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  7. 76 days
    Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
  8. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  9. Ammonite
    Francis Lee
  10. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank

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