Glenn Kenny: Notable Films of 2020, the first ten in order of preference
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012]
- Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
- First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
- She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
- The Wolf House — Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
- Shirley — Josephine Decker
- Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont
- Wasp Network — Olivier Assayas
- Cut Throat City — RZA
- Residue — Merawi Gerima
- Possessor — Brandon Cronenberg
- The 11th Green — Christopher Munch
- The Cordillera of Dreams — Patricio Guzmán
- Da 5 Bloods — Spike Lee
- The Deeper You Dig — John Adams and Toby Poser
- F11 and Be There — Jethro Waters
- Family Romance, LLC — Werner Herzog
- Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds — Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
- The Ghost of Peter Sellers — Peter Medak
- Ghost Tropic — Bas Devos
- God of the Piano — Itay Tal
- Let Him Go — Thomas Bezucha
- Let Them All Talk — Steve Soderbergh
- Mank — David Fincher
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom — George C. Wolfe
- Mr. SOUL! — Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
- My Psychedelic Love Story — Errol Morris
- Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin — Werner Herzog
- The Personal History of David Copperfield — Armando Iannucci
- The State Against Mandela and the Others — Gilles Porte and Nicolas Champeaux
- Synchronic — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
- System K — Renaud Barret
- Tommaso — Abel Ferrara
- To the Ends of the Earth — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- A White, White Day — Hlynur Pálmason
- The Wild Goose Lake — Diao Yinan
- Yourself and Yours — Hong Sang-soo
- Zappa — Alex Winter