Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The Best Films of 2020

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1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
   Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
2. City Hall
   Frederick Wiseman
3. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
4. The Grand Bizarre
   Jodie Mack
5. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
6. To the Ends of the Earth
   Kiyoshi Kurosawa
7. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
8. Time
   Garrett Bradley
9. Fourteen
   Dan Sallitt
10. The Cordillera of Dreams
    Patricio Guzmán
11. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
12. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
13. Space Dogs
    Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter
14. The Wild Goose Lake
    Diao Yinan
15. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
16. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
17. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
18. Tommaso
    Abel Ferrara
19. Yourself and Yours
    Hong Sang-soo
20. Zombi Child
    Bertrand Bonello
21. Tesla
    Michael Almereyda
22. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu
23. Sorry We Missed You
    Ken Loach
24. Welcome to Chechnya
    David France
25. The Wolf House
    Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
26. Ghost Tropic
    Bas Devos
27. The Twentieth Century
    Matthew Rankin
28. This Is Not a Movie
    Yung Chang
29. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
30. Liberty
    Albert Serra
31. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
32. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
33. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
34. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
35. Joan of Arc
    Bruno Dumont
36. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
37. Ham on Rye
    Tyler Taormina
38. Donbass
    Sergei Loznitsa
39. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
40. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
41. Pahokee
    Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
42. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
43. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
44. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
45. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
46. Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
    Steve McQueen
47. Boys State
    Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
48. Heimat is a Space in Time
    Thomas Heise
49. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
50. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola