Year-End Lists

Ty Burr: Best Movies of 2020, as published by The Boston Globe

1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
2. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
4. Palm Springs
   Max Barbakow
5. The Painter and the Thief
   Benjamin Ree
6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
   Charlie Kaufman
7. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
8. Bacurau
   Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
9. City Hall
   Frederick Wiseman
10. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross

Runners-up

• The Assistant
  Kitty Green
• Beanpole
  Kantemir Balagov
• Boys State
  Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
• Collective
  Alexander Nanau
• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
  Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht
• David Byrne's American Utopia
  Spike Lee
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
  Kirsten Johnson
• Driveways
  Andrew Ahn
• The Father
  Florian Zeller
• Ghost Tropic
  Bas Devos
• Gunda
  Viktor Kosakovskiy
• Ham on Rye
  Tyler Taormina
• Mank
  David Fincher
• Martin Eden
  Pietro Marcello
• Minari
  Lee Isaac Chung
• Miss Juneteenth
  Channing Godfrey Peoples
• The Nest
  Sean Durkin
• One Night in Miami
  Regina King
• Possessor
  Brandon Cronenberg
• Promising Young Woman
  Emerald Fennell
• She Dies Tomorrow
  Amy Seimetz
• Shirley
  Josephine Decker
• Sound of Metal
  Darius Marder
• Time
  Garrett Bradley
• The Vast of Night
  Andrew Patterson