Year-End Lists

Eric Kohn: The Best Movies of 2020, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012]

1. First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
3. Collective — Alexander Nanau
4. Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
6. Time — Garrett Bradley
7. The Climb — Michael Angelo Covino
8. The Mole Agent — Maite Alberdi
9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — Jason Woliner
10. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
12. The Assistant — Kitty Green
13. Sound of Metal — Darius Marder
14. Soul — Pete Docter
15. Mank — David Fincher
16. Mayor — David Osit
17. Small Axe: Mangrove — Steve McQueen
18. The Vast of Night — Andrew Patterson
19. Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
20. She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz

Runners-up

• Another Round — Thomas Vinterberg
• Gunda — Viktor Kosakovskiy
• I Carry You with Me — Heidi Ewing
• Minari — Lee Isaac Chung
• Relic — Natalie Erika James
• The Truffle Hunters — Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
• The Painter and the Thief — Benjamin Ree