Recently catching up with Nomadland, Sound of Metal, Mayor and Black Bear has allowed me to finalize my Best Movies of 2020. In the Year of Pandemic, I somehow managed to watch one hundred and fifteen 2020 movies (and another one hundred and forty-nine movies from earlier years). Here are the thirteen that I most admire and engage with.
To get on my year-end list, a movie has to be one that thrills me while I’m watching it and one that I’m still thinking about a couple of days later.
THE BEST OF THE YEAR
- Nomadland
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- The Personal History of David Copperfield
- Sound of Metal
- The Father
- Driveways
- The August Virgin
- Another Round
- Mank
- The Whistlers
- The Truth
- Black Bear
- Before the Fire
