Year-End Lists

Screen Slate: Top 20 Films of 2020, a poll of the site's contributors. Also, visit Screen Slate to see their contributors' lists of notable first viewings and discoveries, "broadly defined." The responses make for some fun browsing.

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

1. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
2. Time
   Garrett Bradley
3. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
4. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
6. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
   Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
8. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
9. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
10. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
11. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
12. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
13. The Inheritance
    Ephraim Asili
14. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
15. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
16. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
17. Undine
    Christian Petzold
18. Tommaso
    Abel Ferrara
19. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
20. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Screen Slate: Molly Haskell: Best Films of 2020
• Screen Slate: Susannah Gruder: Best Films of 2020