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Best Movies of 2020

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  • Collective (2019)

    1. Collective

    20191h 49mNot Rated95Metascore
    8.1 (14K)
    Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
    DirectorAlexander NanauStarsNarcis HogeaCristina TartauTedy Ursuleanu
  • Lovers Rock (2020)

    2. Small Axe

    Episode: 

    Lovers Rock

    (2020)
    20201h 10mTV-MATV Episode95Metascore
    7.5 (5.5K)
    A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
    DirectorSteve McQueenStarsDennis BovellSaffron CoomberFrankie Fox
  • Jessie Buckley in I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

    3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    20202h 14mR78Metascore
    6.5 (106K)
    Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
    DirectorCharlie KaufmanStarsJesse PlemonsJessie BuckleyToni Collette
  • Beginning (2020)

    4. Beginning

    20202h 10mNot Rated81Metascore
    6.6 (2.6K)
    When a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked, leader's wife Yana questions her desires as her familiar world crumbles.
    DirectorDea KulumbegashviliStarsIa SukhitashviliRati OneliKakha Kintsurashvili
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton (2020)

    5. Hamilton

    20202h 40mPG-1388Metascore
    8.3 (130K)
    The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.
    DirectorThomas KailStarsLin-Manuel MirandaPhillipa SooLeslie Odom Jr.
  • Vladimir Azhippo and Natalia Berezhnaya in DAU. Natasha (2020)

    6. DAU. Natasha

    20202h 18m75Metascore
    6.3 (1.6K)
    Natasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.
    DirectorsIlya KhrzhanovskiyJekaterina OertelStarsNatalia BerezhnayaOlga ShkabarnyaVladimir Azhippo
  • Vladimir Azhippo and Alexey Trifonov in DAU. Degeneratsiya (2020)

    7. DAU. Degeneratsiya

    20206h 9m
    6.5 (679)
    Soviet scientists conduct twisted experiments at a secret institute. When radical youth infiltrate as test subjects, they're tasked with ending the staff's debauchery and destroying the institute if necessary.
    DirectorsIlya KhrzhanovskiyIlya PermyakovStarsVladimir AzhippoDmitry KaledinOlga Shkabarnya
  • City Hall (2020)

    8. City Hall

    20204h 32m88Metascore
    7.4 (778)
    A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
    DirectorFrederick WisemanStarMarty Walsh
  • Time (2020)

    9. Time

    20201h 21mPG-1391Metascore
    6.8 (6.5K)
    Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.
    DirectorGarrett BradleyStarsSibil Fox RichardsonRobert G. RichardsonMahlik Richardson
  • The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020)

    10. The Metamorphosis of Birds

    20201h 41m
    7.4 (1.8K)
    The passing away of their mothers makes Catarina and her own father meet in an emotional place that is different from the one most fathers and daughters know.
    DirectorCatarina VasconcelosStarsManuel RosaJoão MóraAna Vasconcelos
  • Morfydd Clark in Saint Maud (2019)

    11. Saint Maud

    20191h 24mR83Metascore
    6.6 (53K)
    A pious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.
    DirectorRose GlassStarsMorfydd ClarkCaoilfhionn DunneJennifer Ehle
  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)

    12. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    20201h 38m83Metascore
    7.2 (1.7K)
    A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
    DirectorsBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsPeter ElwellMichael MartinShay Walker
  • Yuliya Vysotskaya in Dear Comrades! (2020)

    13. Dear Comrades!

    20202h 1m82Metascore
    7.4 (6.3K)
    When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
    DirectorAndrei KonchalovskyStarsYuliya VysotskayaSergei ErlishYuliya Burova
  • Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal (2019)

    14. Sound of Metal

    20192hR82Metascore
    7.7 (161K)
    During a series of adrenaline-fueled gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben begins to experience hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career - and with it his life - is over.
    DirectorDarius MarderStarsRiz AhmedOlivia CookePaul Raci
  • First Cow (2019)

    15. First Cow

    20192h 2mPG-1390Metascore
    7.1 (23K)
    In 1820, a cook travels to Oregon, where he meets a Chinese immigrant who is also looking to make his fortune. Soon, they team up in a dangerous scheme to steal milk from a prized local cow, the first and only in the territory.
    DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsAlia ShawkatJohn MagaroDylan Smith
  • Dick Johnson in Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

    16. Dick Johnson Is Dead

    20201h 29mPG-1389Metascore
    7.4 (7.5K)
    A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.
    DirectorKirsten JohnsonStarsMichael HilowAna HoffmanDick Johnson
  • Eva Whittaker and Honor Kneafsey in Wolfwalkers (2020)

    17. Wolfwalkers

    20201h 43mPG87Metascore
    8.0 (42K)
    A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.
    DirectorsTomm MooreRoss StewartStarsHonor KneafseyEva WhittakerSean Bean
  • Christopher Abbott in Possessor (2020)

    18. Possessor

    20201h 43mR72Metascore
    6.5 (51K)
    An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
    DirectorBrandon CronenbergStarsAndrea RiseboroughChristopher AbbottJennifer Jason Leigh
  • David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)

    19. David Byrne's American Utopia

    20201h 45mTV-1493Metascore
    8.2 (5.6K)
    Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDavid ByrneJacqueline AcevedoGustavo Di Dalva
  • Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in The Father (2020)

    20. The Father

    20201h 37mPG-1388Metascore
    8.2 (217K)
    A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. When he tries to understand what is happening around him, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
    DirectorFlorian ZellerStarsAnthony HopkinsOlivia ColmanMark Gatiss
  • Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz in The Vast of Night (2019)

    21. The Vast of Night

    20191h 31mPG-1384Metascore
    6.7 (48K)
    One night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ start hearing a strange signal over a radio frequency.
    DirectorAndrew PattersonStarsSierra McCormickJake HorowitzGail Cronauer
  • Shaun Parkes, John Boyega, and Letitia Wright in Mangrove (2020)

    22. Small Axe

    Episode: 

    Mangrove

    (2020)
    20202h 7mTV-MATV Episode90Metascore
    8.0 (6.1K)
    Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
    DirectorSteve McQueenStarsGary BeadleDarren BraithwaiteRichie Campbell
  • Boys State (2020)

    23. Boys State

    20201h 49mPG-1384Metascore
    7.6 (6.1K)
    A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
    DirectorsAmanda McBaineJesse MossStarsBen FeinsteinSteven GarzaRobert MacDougall
  • Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey in Soul (2020)

    24. Soul

    20201h 40mPG83Metascore
    8.0 (412K)
    Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
    DirectorsPete DocterKemp PowersStarsJamie FoxxTina FeyGraham Norton
  • Feels Good Man (2020)

    25. Feels Good Man

    20201h 32mTV-MA79Metascore
    7.5 (5.8K)
    Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
    DirectorArthur JonesStarsMatt FurieAiyana UdesenChris Sullivan

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