Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2020, as published by The New York Times

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1. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
2. City Hall
   Frederick Wiseman
3. Gunda
   Viktor Kosakovskiy
4. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
5. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
6. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
8. Collective
   Alexander Nanau
9. The 40-Year-Old Version
   Radha Blank
10. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov

Other movies I'm grateful for

• 76 days
  Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
• Small Axe: Alex Wheatle
  Steve McQueen
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  Jason Woliner
• Buoyancy
  Rodd Rathjen
• Circumstantial Pleasures
  Lewis Klahr
• Coded Bias
  Shalini Kantayya
• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
  Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht
• Da 5 Bloods
  Spike Lee
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
  Kirsten Johnson
• Emma.
  Autumn de Wilde
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
  Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
• Birds of Prey
  Cathy Yan
• House of Hummingbird
  Kim Bora
• I Wish I Knew
  Jia Zhang-ke
• The Invisible Man
  Leigh Whannell
• Lost Girls
  Liz Garbus
• Minari
  Lee Isaac Chung
• Miss Juneteenth
  Channing Godfrey Peoples
• Nomadland
  Chloé Zhao
• The Old Guard
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• On the Record
  Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
• On the Rocks
  Sofia Coppola
• One Night in Miami
  Regina King
• The Photograph
  Stella Meghie
• Tesla
  Michael Almereyda
• The Traitor
  Marco Bellocchio
• The Wild Goose Lake
  Diao Yinan
• Sorry We Missed You
  Ken Loach
• Soul
  Pete Docter
• The Truffle Hunters
  Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
• The Truth
  Hirokazu Kore-eda