My Top 50 Movies of 2020
1. Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)
2. The Invisible Man (Leigh Wannell)
3. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
4. Pieces of a Woman (Kornel Mundruczo)
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza
Hittman)
6. Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
7. The Hunt (Craig Zobel)
8. Palm Springs (Max Barbakow)
9. I’m Your Woman (Julia Hart)
10. Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)
11. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C.
Wolfe)
12. The Empty Man (David Prior)
13. Mank (David Fincher)
14. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
15. The Night House (David Bruckner)
16. Anything For Jackson (Justin G. Dyck)
17. Spontaneous (Brian Duffield)
18. Horse Girl (Jeff Baena)
19. She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz)
20. The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Jim Cummings)
21. Soul (Pete Docter and Kemp Powers)
22. His House (Remi Weekes)
23. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie
Kaufman)
24. I Care A Lot (J Blakeson)
25. A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski)
26. Love and Monsters (Michael Matthews)
27. Emma (Autumn de Wilde)
28. Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh)
29. Freaky (Christopher Landon)
30. Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
31. Come Play (Jacob Chase)
32. The High Note (Nisha Ganatra)
33. Books of Blood (Brannon Braga)
34. The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
35. Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean
Parisot)
36. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of
Fire Saga (David Dobkin)
37. Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan)
38. The King of Staten Island (Judd Apatow)
39. Onward (Dan Scanlon)
40. I Used To Go Here (Kris Rey)
41. The Way Back (Gavin O’Connor)
42. Charm City Kings (Angel Manuel Soto)
43. The Witches (Robert Zemeckis)
44. American Utopia (Spike Lee)
45. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken
Heart (Frank Marshall)
46. Work It (Laura Terruso)
47. Pixie (Barnaby Thompson)
48. Happiest Season (Clea DuVall)
49. Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (Julien Temple)
50. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
Looking at the lists I've made so far in this series and the ones I've started drafting, I think I probably saw fewer features released in 2020 than any other year in at least the last decade or so, even after catching up on a few recently that I hadn't seen. So this list was harder to make, for that reason, and also because 2020 was of course the year that COVID-19 hit and disrupted and delayed the production and/or release of a ton of movies. My family recently had a dinner conversation about our favorite Pixar movies (highly recommended conversation starter for just about any group of people!) and my 15-year-old son had Soul in his top 5, which surprised me, but I respect that, it's a good one that I forget about sometimes.
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