Year-End Lists

Molly Haskell: Best Films of 2020, as published by Screen Slate along with a list of discoveries

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

• Beanpole
  Kantemir Balagov
• Martin Eden
  Pietro Marcello
• The Woman Who Ran
  Hong Sang-soo
• Undine
  Christian Petzold
• The Salt of Tears
  Philippe Garrel
• David Byrne's American Utopia
  Spike Lee
• City Hall
  Frederick Wiseman
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
  Kirsten Johnson
• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa
• Bacurau
  Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

Runners-up

• Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
  Jia Zhang-ke
• The Assistant
  Kitty Green
• Relic
  Natalie Erika James
• First Cow
  Kelly Reichardt
• The Expecting
  Mary Harron

This list contributes to:

• Top 20 Films of 2020 Screen Slate