Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: Top 10 Movies of 2020, as published by The Chicago Tribune

1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
2. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
3. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
4. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
5. City So Real
   Steve James
6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
   George C. Wolfe
7. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
8. Small Axe: Mangrove
   Steve McQueen
9. The Vast of Night
   Andrew Patterson
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman

Runners-up, 11-20, in alphabetical order

• Beanpole
  Kantemir Balagov
• Driveways
  Andrew Ahn
• Earth
  Visakesa Chandrasekaram
• The 40-Year-Old Version
  Radha Blank
• Hamilton
  Thomas Kail
• The Nest
  Sean Durkin
• The Personal History of David Copperfield
  Armando Iannucci
• Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
  Steve McQueen
• 76 days
  Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
• Shirley
  Josephine Decker