K. Austin Collins: Top 20 Movies of 2020, as published by Rolling Stone
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016]
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
- Time — Garrett Bradley
- Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
- Fire Will Come — Oliver Laxe
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
- Small Axe: Red, White and Blue — Steve McQueen
- City Hall — Frederick Wiseman
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
- Fourteen — Dan Sallitt
- First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
- Residue — Merawi Gerima
- Tesla — Michael Almereyda
- Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
- Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
- The Vast of Night — Andrew Patterson
- She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
- I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
- Ham on Rye — Tyler Taormina
- The Assistant — Kitty Green
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — Jason Woliner
- The 40-Year-Old Version — Radha Blank
- Kajillionaire — Miranda July
- Mank — David Fincher
- Capone — Josh Trank
- Collective — Alexander Nanau
- Da 5 Bloods — Spike Lee
- Gunda — Viktor Kosakovskiy
- His House — Remi Weekes
- La Llorona — Jayro Bustamante
- Minari — Lee Isaac Chung
- Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
- Possessor — Brandon Cronenberg
- The Wolf House — Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña