THE FRIENDLY FILM FAN’S RECOMMENDED MOVIES OF 2020

​Hello, all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! While we dive deeper into the end-of-year coverage for 2020 movies, sometimes movies that don’t make a big splash or a particular impact get lost in the shuffle. This list is a way to (hopefully) remedy that notion by spotlighting all the movies I’ve watched in a given year that I would still recommend seeing, even if they’re not in content for the Top 10 or even the Honorable Mentions list. These films range from decent to downright fantastic, but alas there are only so many slots in those lists, so many of those films are forced to sit them out. But that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be celebrated, and today, that is what I aim to do. (Fair warning: this list is a lot more casual than most other lists I make, so there are no posters or artwork apart from the header image.) And now, back to the show. Here is my list of Recommended Movies from 2020! 

​(This list is in alphabetical order purely for organizational purposes. It is not intended to be read as an official or unofficial ranking of the films listed.)

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• 76 Days
• Alex Wheatle (Small Axe Anthology)
• All In: The Fight for Democracy
• Ammonite
• The Assistant
• Bacurau
• Bad Education
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Bill & Ted Face the Music
• Black Bear
• The Broken Hearts Gallery
• The Call of the Wild
• City Hall
• The Croods: A New Age
• Da 5 Bloods
• Driveways
• Education (Small Axe Anthology)
• Emma.
• Enola Holmes
• The Forty-Year-Old Version
• The Gentlemen
• Greenland
• Gunda
• The Half of It
• Happiest Season
• Herself
• His House
• Hope
• Host
• Hunter Hunter
• I’m Your Woman
• The King of Staten Island
• La Llorona
• Let Him Go
• The Life Ahead
• The Lodge
• Love and Monsters
• Lovers Rock (Small Axe Anthology)
• Lucky Grandma
• Malcolm & Marie
• Mangrove (Small Axe Anthology)
• The Man Who Sold His Skin
• The Mauritanian
• MLK/FBI
• My Octopus Teacher
• The Nest
• News of the World
• Night of the Kings
• Notturno
• The Old Guard
• On the Rocks
• Onward
• Our Friend
• The Outpost
• Over the Moon
• Pieces of a Woman
• Possessor
• Quo Vadis, Aida?
• Red, White, and Blue (Small Axe Anthology)
• Relic
• Run
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• She Dies Tomorrow
• Shirley
• Shithouse
• Sorry We Missed You
• Spaceship Earth
• Spontaneous
• Summerland
• Sun Children
• Swallow
• Tenet
• Totally Under Control
• The Truth
• Underwater
• The Vast of Night
• Watch List
• The Way Back (2020)
• The White Tiger
• Wonder Woman 1984
• Words on Bathroom Walls
• Yellow Rose

And that’s my list! Have you seen any of these? How many? Anything you’d personally recommend that doesn’t appear on this list? Let me know in the comments section below. Thanks for reading!
 
- The Friendly Film Fan