Year-End Lists

Screen Slate: Top 20 Films of 2020, a poll of the site's contributors. Also, visit Screen Slate to see their contributors' lists of notable first viewings and discoveries, "broadly defined." The responses make for some fun browsing.

1. First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
2. Time — Garrett Bradley
3. Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
4. Days — Tsai Ming-liang
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
6. Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello
7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
8. Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
9. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
10. City Hall — Frederick Wiseman
11. Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
12. Collective — Alexander Nanau
13. The Inheritance — Ephraim Asili
14. She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
15. I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
16. The Woman Who Ran — Hong Sang-soo
17. Undine — Christian Petzold
18. Tommaso — Abel Ferrara
19. Shirley — Josephine Decker
20. Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov