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Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2020

21 December 2020

Small Axe - Steve McQueen

Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

  1. Small Axe
    Steve McQueen
  2. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  3. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  4. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
  5. About Endlessness
    Roy Andersson
  6. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  8. Time
    Garrett Bradley
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  10. Rocks
    Sarah Gavron
  11. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
  12. Mank
    David Fincher
  13. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  14. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
  15. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
  16. Babyteeth
    Shannon Murphy
  17. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  18. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  19. Liberty
    Albert Serra
  20. Birds of Prey
    Cathy Yan
  21. Bad Education
    Cory Finley
  22. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  23. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  24. His House
    Remi Weekes
  25. Isadora's Children
    Damien Manivel
  26. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
  27. Mogul Mowgli
    Bassam Tariq
  28. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  29. And Then We Danced
    Levan Akin
  30. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz

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