Year-End Lists

Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2020, as reconstructed by Mike D’Angelo for Filmmaker Magazine

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
3. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
5. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
6. Time
   Garrett Bradley
7. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
8. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
9. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
10. Vitalina Varela
    Pedro Costa
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
12. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
13. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
14. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
15. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
16. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
17. The Nest
    Sean Durkin
18. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
19. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
20. Promising Young Woman
    Emerald Fennell
21. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
21. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
23. Driveways
    Andrew Ahn
24. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt
25. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
26. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
27. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
28. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
29. To the Ends of the Earth
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
30. The Grand Bizarre
    Jodie Mack
31. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu
32. The Father
    Florian Zeller
33. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
34. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
35. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
36. Soul
    Pete Docter
37. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
38. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
38. Sorry We Missed You
    Ken Loach
40. Saint Frances
    Alex Thompson
41. Let Them All Talk
    Steven Soderbergh
42. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
43. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
43. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
45. A White, White Day
    Hlynur Pálmason
46. Malmkrog
    Cristi Puiu
46. The Painter and the Thief
    Benjamin Ree
48. Swallow
    Carlo Mirabella-Davis
49. An Easy Girl
    Rebecca Zlotowski
50. Bad Education
    Cory Finley

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• The Best Films of 2020 A.A. Dowd · A.V. Club
• The Best Films of 2020 Charles Bramesco · A.V. Club
• The Best Films of 2020 Noel Murray · A.V. Club
• The Best Films of 2020 Vikram Murthi · A.V. Club
• The 10 Best Films of 2020 David Sims · Atlantic
• The Best Movies of 2020 Nick Schager · Esquire
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Brian Darr · Filmmaker Magazine · Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2020 Steve Erickson · GCN
• Notable Films of 2020 Glenn Kenny
• The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
• The Best Movies of 2020 Alison Willmore · New York · Vulture
• The Best Movies of 2020 Bilge Ebiri · New York · Vulture
• The Best Movies of 2020 Richard Brody · New Yorker
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Monica Castillo · RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Odie Henderson · RogerEbert.com
• The 20 Best Movies of 2020 David Fear · Rolling Stone
• Top 10 Films of 2020 Scott Tobias
• Top Ten Films of 2020 Jordan Cronk · Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2020 Ed Gonzalez · Slant
• Best Movies of 2020 Peter Debruge · Variety
• The 25 Best Movies of 2020 Alissa Wilkinson · Vox
• The 10 Best Films from 2020 Sean Burns · WBUR · ARTery