Year-End Lists

Alison Willmore: The Best Movies of 2020, as published by Slate as a part of their annual Movie Club

[see also The Best Movies of 2025 • The Best Movies of 2024 • The Best Movies of 2023 • The Best Movies of 2022 • The Best Movies of 2021 • The Best Movies of 2020 • Top 10 Movies of 2019 • 11 Best Movies Of 2018 • 11 Best Movies of 2017 • 11 Best Movies of 2016 • 19 Best Movies of 2015 • 14 Greatest Movies of 2014 • The Best Films of 2012 • Best Films of 2011]

1. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
3. Time
   Garrett Bradley
4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
5. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
6. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
   Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
7. Beanpole
   Kantemir Balagov
8. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
9. Another Round
   Thomas Vinterberg
10. Relic
    Natalie Erika James

Runners-up, alpha-order

• The Father
  Florian Zeller
• First Cow
  Kelly Reichardt
• La Llorona
  Jayro Bustamante
• Minari
  Lee Isaac Chung
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  Eliza Hittman
• The Nest
  Sean Durkin
• Nomadland
  Chloé Zhao
• The Painter and the Thief
  Benjamin Ree
• The Vast of Night
  Andrew Patterson
• Wolfwalkers
  Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart

This list contributes to:

• Movie Club 2020 Slate · Movie Club