Year-End Lists

IndieWire: Best Movies of 2020, as voted by film critics from around the world

1. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
3. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
   Charlie Kaufman
6. Beanpole
   Kantemir Balagov
7. Time
   Garrett Bradley
8. Da 5 Bloods
   Spike Lee
9. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
10. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
10. Mank
    David Fincher
11. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
13. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
14. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
15. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
16. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
17. One Night in Miami
    Regina King
18. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
19. The Nest
    Sean Durkin
20. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
21. The Trial of the Chicago 7
    Aaron Sorkin
22. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
23. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
24. Soul
    Pete Docter
25. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
26. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu
27. Ammonite
    Francis Lee
28. News of the World
    Paul Greengrass
29. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
30. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
31. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
32. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
33. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
34. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
35. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
36. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
37. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Jason Woliner
38. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt
39. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
40. Sorry We Missed You
    Ken Loach
41. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
42. Undine
    Christian Petzold
43. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola
44. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
45. Young Ahmed
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
46. Let Them All Talk
    Steven Soderbergh
47. Emma.
    Autumn de Wilde
48. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
49. His House
    Remi Weekes
50. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree