Year-End Lists

Max Weiss: Favorite Films of 2020, as published by Baltimore Magazine

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
2. Minari
   Lee Isaac Chung
3. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
5. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
6. On the Rocks
   Sofia Coppola
7. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
7. Beastie Boys Story
   Spike Jonze
7. The Go-Go's
   Alison Ellwood
7. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
   Frank Marshall
8. Boys State
   Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
9. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
10. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
11. News of the World
    Paul Greengrass
12. Emma.
    Autumn de Wilde
13. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
14. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
15. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
16. A Thousand Cuts
    Ramona S. Diaz
17. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci
18. Black Bear
    Lawrence Michael Levine
19. Miss Juneteenth
    Channing Godfrey Peoples
20. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow