Year-End Lists

Jordan Ruimy: The 15 Best Movies of 2020, as published by World of Reel

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
3. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
   Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
4. Da 5 Bloods
   Spike Lee
5. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
6. The Invisible Man
   Leigh Whannell
7. Bad Education
   Cory Finley
8. Young Ahmed
   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
9. Sound of Metal
   Darius Marder
10. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
11. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
12. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
13. Pieces of a Woman
    Kornél Mundruczó
14. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
15. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow

Runners-Up

• The Nest
  Sean Durkin
• Spree
  Eugene Kotlyarenko
• Possessor
  Brandon Cronenberg
• The Father
  Florian Zeller
• Host
  Rob Savage
• Incitement
  Yaron Zilberman
• Small Axe: Mangrove
  Steve McQueen
• The Devil All the Time
  Antonio Campos
• 76 days
  Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous