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2020 Movies

Sight & Sound Poll: The Best Films of 2020

11 December 2020

Small Axe: Lovers Rock - Steve McQueen

Sight & Sound Poll: The Best Films of 2020, a poll of over 100 contributors, published by Sight & Sound Magazine

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  1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  2. Time
    Garrett Bradley
  3. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  5. Saint Maud
    Rose Glass
  6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  8. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  9. Rocks
    Sarah Gavron
  10. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
  11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
  12. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  13. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
  14. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  15. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
  16. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  17. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  18. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
  19. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
  20. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
  21. The Year of the Discovery
    Luis López Carrasco
  22. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
  23. The Inheritance
    Ephraim Asili
  24. Undine
    Christian Petzold
  25. Babyteeth
    Shannon Murphy
  26. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
  27. His House
    Remi Weekes
  28. Les Misérables
    Ladj Ly
  29. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
  30. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  31. Ema
    Pablo Larraín
  32. Host
    Rob Savage
  33. Limbo
    Ben Sharrock
  34. Mank
    David Fincher
  35. Mogul Mowgli
    Bassam Tariq
  36. Relic
    Natalie Erika James
  37. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
  38. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
  39. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
  40. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci
  41. About Endlessness
    Roy Andersson
  42. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
  43. Birds of Prey
    Cathy Yan
  44. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Jason Woliner
  45. Clemency
    Chinonye Chukwu
  46. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
  47. Richard Jewell
    Clint Eastwood
  48. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
  49. The Truth
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  50. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson

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