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Welcome to my site! My name is Andrea Thompson, and I’m a writer, editor, and film critic who is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival, which you can find more info about at filmgirlfilm.com! I have no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

Film Girl Film's Top 10 Films Directed By Women In 2020

Film Girl Film's Top 10 Films Directed By Women In 2020

By Andrea Thompson

It’s been a very odd year, and we didn’t get nearly as many films directed by women as we should have. But we still got enough for 2020 to be an embarrassment of riches, with the expected comic book action movie to a father-daughter love story (hey there was more than one of those), as well as a mother-daughter one, a feminist crime drama, and plenty of ruminations on the evasiveness of the American Dream and whether it ever existed in the first place. Here’s our our list of the 10 best films directed by women in 2020.

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