Year-End Lists

Alissa Wilkinson: The 25 Best Movies of 2020, as published by Vox

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. The Painter and the Thief
   Benjamin Ree
2. Mayor
   David Osit
3. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
5. Driveways
   Andrew Ahn
6. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
7. Another Round
   Thomas Vinterberg
8. Time
   Garrett Bradley
9. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
10. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
12. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
13. Scheme Birds
    Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin
14. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
15. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
16. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
17. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
18. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
19. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
20. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
21. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
22. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
23. Palm Springs
    Max Barbakow
24. South Mountain
    Hilary Brougher
25. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Dean Parisot

Honorable mentions

• 76 days
  Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
• Bacurau
  Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
• Bad Education
  Cory Finley
• Emma.
  Autumn de Wilde
• Eurovision
  David Dobkin
• Feels Good Man
  Arthur Jones
• Fourteen
  Dan Sallitt
• Kajillionaire
  Miranda July
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  Charlie Kaufman
• The Invisible Man
  Leigh Whannell
• Mank
  David Fincher
• Martin Eden
  Pietro Marcello
• Miss Juneteenth
  Channing Godfrey Peoples
• The Nest
  Sean Durkin
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  Eliza Hittman
• Shirley
  Josephine Decker
• Soul
  Pete Docter
• Sound of Metal
  Darius Marder
• The Surrogate
  Jeremy Hersh
• Welcome to Chechnya
  David France
• White Noise
  Daniel Lombroso

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2020