Year-End Lists

Jeffrey M. Anderson: The Best Movies of 2020, as published by San Francisco Examiner

1. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
2. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
3. On the Rocks
   Sofia Coppola
4. The Vast of Night
   Andrew Patterson
5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
   Charlie Kaufman
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
7. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
8. Da 5 Bloods
   Spike Lee
9. Hamilton
   Thomas Kail
10. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz

Runners-up

• City Hall
  Frederick Wiseman
• Color Out of Space
  Richard Stanley
• Small Axe: Lovers Rock
  Steve McQueen
• Mank
  David Fincher
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  George C. Wolfe
• The Painted Bird
  Václav Marhoul
• Promising Young Woman
  Emerald Fennell
• Relic
  Natalie Erika James
• Soul
  Pete Docter
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
  Aaron Sorkin
• Tommaso
  Abel Ferrara
• The Wolf House
  Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña