Year-End Lists

K. Austin Collins: Top 20 Movies of 2020, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
1. Time — Garrett Bradley
2. Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
3. Fire Will Come — Oliver Laxe
4. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
5. Small Axe: Red, White and Blue — Steve McQueen
6. City Hall — Frederick Wiseman
7. Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
8. Fourteen — Dan Sallitt
9. First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
10. Residue — Merawi Gerima
11. Tesla — Michael Almereyda
12. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
13. Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
14. The Vast of Night — Andrew Patterson
15. She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
15. I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
16. Ham on Rye — Tyler Taormina
17. The Assistant — Kitty Green
18. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — Jason Woliner
18. The 40-Year-Old Version — Radha Blank
19. Kajillionaire — Miranda July
20. Mank — David Fincher

honorable mentions

• 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