Year-End Lists

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

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