Year-End Lists

Scott Tobias: Top 10 Films of 2020, as posted to Twitter and discussed on The Next Picture Show

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1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
2. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
3. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
5. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
6. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
   Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
   Charlie Kaufman
9. Beanpole
   Kantemir Balagov
10. The Nest
    Sean Durkin

Honorable Mentions (no order)

• David Byrne's American Utopia
  Spike Lee
• Fourteen
  Dan Sallitt
• Collective
  Alexander Nanau
• Time
  Garrett Bradley
• Boys State
  Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
• Bad Education
  Cory Finley
• The Vast of Night
  Andrew Patterson
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  Eliza Hittman
• Minari
  Lee Isaac Chung
• Wolfwalkers
  Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
• Sound of Metal
  Darius Marder
• A White, White Day
  Hlynur Pálmason
• Soul
  Pete Docter
• Another Round
  Thomas Vinterberg

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2020