Year-End Lists

Dana Stevens: The Best Movies of 2020, as published by Slate

• The Assistant
  Kitty Green
• Bacurau
  Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
• Beanpole
  Kantemir Balagov
• Collective
  Alexander Nanau
• Da 5 Bloods
  Spike Lee
• First Cow
  Kelly Reichardt
• Let Them All Talk
  Steven Soderbergh
• Minari
  Lee Isaac Chung
• Nomadland
  Chloé Zhao
• Saint Maud
  Rose Glass

Plus five runners-up

• City Hall
  Frederick Wiseman
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
  Kirsten Johnson
• Fourteen
  Dan Sallitt
• Small Axe: Lovers Rock
  Steve McQueen
• Time
  Garrett Bradley