The American Sector(Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
Additional 2020 Films By Rating
Dick Johnson Is Dead(Kirsten Johnson)
Lovers Rock(Steve McQueen)
I Am Greta(Nathan Grossman)
The Old Guard(Gina Prince-Bythewood)
76 Days(Hao Wu & Weixi Chen & Anonymous)
Save Yourselves!(Alex H. Fischer & Eleanor Wilson)
David Byrne's American Utopia(Spike Lee)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom(George C. Wolfe)
The Invisible Man(Leigh Whannell)
Monday(Argyris Papadimitropoulos)
Soul(Pete Docter)
Beginning(Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Days(Tsai Ming-liang)
What the Constitution Means to Me(Marielle Heller)
On the Record(Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering)
Promising Young Woman(Emerald Fennell)
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes(Junta Yamaguchi)
On the Rocks(Sofia Coppola)
Another Round(Thomas Vinterberg)
Tesla(Michael Almereyda)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things(Charlie Kaufman)
The Truffle Hunters(Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw)
Slow Machine(Paul Felten & Joe Denardo)
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds(Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer)
Da 5 Bloods(Spike Lee)
The Disciple(Chaitanya Tamhane)
Palm Springs(Max Barbakow)
City Hall(Frederick Wiseman)
Run.(Aneesh Chaganty)
The Empty Man(David Prior)
Minari(Lee Isaac Chung)
Kajillionaire(Miranda July)
Night of the Kings(Phillipe Lacôte)
One Second(Zhang Yimou)
Nomadland(Chloé Zhao)
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia(various)
Alone(John Hyams)
Mandibles(Quentin Dupieux)
Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019(Steven Soderbergh)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets(Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross)
Gunda(Victor Kossakovsky)
After Love(Aleem Khan)
Mank(David Fincher)
Mangrove(Steve McQueen)
WolfWalkers(Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart)
Undine(Christian Petzold)
Atarrabi and Mikelats(Eugène Green)
Beastie Boys Story(Spike Jonze)
Time(Garrett Bradley)
Possessor(Brandon Cronenberg)
The Courier(Dominic Cooke)
Rams(Jeremy Sims)
The Trial of the Chicago 7(Aaron Sorkin)
The Salt of Tears(Philippe Garrel)
The Painter and the Thief(Benjamin Ree)
MLK/FBI(Sam Pollard)
Summer of 85(François Ozon)
My Psychedelic Love Story(Errol Morris)
Lost Girls(Liz Garbus)
The Woman Who Ran(Hong Sang-soo)
Preparations To Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time(Horvát Lili)
The Calming(Song Fang)
There Is No Evil(Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Devil All the Time(Antonio Campos)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always(Eliza Hittman)
Wendy(Benh Zeitlin)
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue(Jia Zhang-ke)
I Carry You With Me(Heidi Ewing)
News of the World(Paul Greengrass)
Alex Wheatle(Steve McQueen)
Nine Days(Edson Oda)
Isabella(Matías Piñeiro)
The War With Grandpa(Tim Hill)
Notturno(Gianfranco Rosi)
Education(Steve McQueen)
Love and Monsters(Michael Matthews)
Penguin Bloom(Glendyn Ivin)
Tragic Jungle(Yulene Olaizola)
Malmkrog(Cristi Puiu)
Mortal(André Øvredal)
Siberia(Abel Ferrara)
The Last Thing He Wanted(Dee Rees)
Viena and The Fantomes(Gerardo Naranjo)
Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list.