Year-End Lists

RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2020, as selected by the site’s regular film critics and editors

1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
2. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
3. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
4. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
5. Da 5 Bloods
   Spike Lee
6. Minari
   Lee Isaac Chung
7. Beanpole
   Kantemir Balagov
8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
9. The Nest
   Sean Durkin
10. The Assistant
    Kitty Green

Runners-up

• Bacurau
  Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
• Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  Charlie Kaufman
• On the Rocks
  Sofia Coppola
• Sound of Metal
  Darius Marder
• Time
  Garrett Bradley
• The Vast of Night
  Andrew Patterson
• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa
• The Wolf House
  Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
• Wolfwalkers
  Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• The Best Films of 2020 Roxana Hadadi · A.V. Club
• Notable Films of 2020 Glenn Kenny
• Top 25 Films of 2020 Robert Daniels
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Barbara Scharres · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Brendan Hodges · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Brian Tallerico · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Carlos Aguilar · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Christy Lemire · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Collin Souter · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Godfrey Cheshire · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Isaac Feldberg · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Jana Monji · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Jonah Koslofsky · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Justine Smith · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Kristy Puchko · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Mark Dujsik · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Marshall Shaffer · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Mary Beth McAndrews · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Matt Fagerholm · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Matt Zoller Seitz · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Max O’Connell · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Michael Frank · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Monica Castillo · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Nell Minow · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Nick Allen · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Odie Henderson · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Peter Sobczynski · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Scout Tafoya · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Seongyong Cho · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Shea Vassar · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Sheila O’Malley · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Simon Abrams · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Soren Hough · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Tomris Laffly · RogerEbert.com