Year-End Lists

Ann Hornaday: Best Movies of 2020, as published by The Washington Post

1. Small Axe
   Steve McQueen
2. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
3. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Miss Juneteenth
   Channing Godfrey Peoples
5. The Personal History of David Copperfield
   Armando Iannucci
6. Palm Springs
   Max Barbakow
7. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
8. The Half of It
   Alice Wu
9. The Trip to Greece
   Michael Winterbottom
10. Host
    Rob Savage

The year's five best documentaries

1. The Painter and the Thief
   Benjamin Ree
2. The Fight
   Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
3. 76 days
   Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
4. Coup 53
   Taghi Amirani
5. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson