The A.V. Club: Best Films of 2020, assembled from the ballots of a dozen contributors
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
- Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
- The Assistant — Kitty Green
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things — Charlie Kaufman
- The Grand Bizarre — Jodie Mack
- Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
- Time — Garrett Bradley
- Fourteen — Dan Sallitt
- A White, White Day — Hlynur Pálmason
- Minari — Lee Isaac Chung
- Sound of Metal — Darius Marder
- Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello
- The Vast of Night — Andrew Patterson
- Da 5 Bloods — Spike Lee
- Mank — David Fincher
- Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
- The 40-Year-Old Version — Radha Blank
- Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov
- The Climb — Michael Angelo Covino
- The Nest — Sean Durkin
- The Invisible Man — Leigh Whannell
- Shirley — Josephine Decker