Year-End Lists

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2020 Movies

Baltimore Magazine: Max Weiss: Favorite Films of 2020

31 December 2020

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

Max Weiss: Favorite Films of 2020, as published by Baltimore Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  2. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  3. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  5. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  6. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola
  7. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
  8. Beastie Boys Story
    Spike Jonze
  9. The Go-Go's
    Alison Ellwood
  10. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
    Frank Marshall
  11. Boys State
    Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
  12. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen
  13. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
  14. News of the World
    Paul Greengrass
  15. Emma.
    Autumn de Wilde
  16. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
  17. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  18. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
  19. A Thousand Cuts
    Ramona S. Diaz
  20. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci
  21. Black Bear
    Lawrence Michael Levine
  22. Miss Juneteenth
    Channing Godfrey Peoples
  23. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow

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