Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: Notable Films of 2020, the first ten in order of preference

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• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa
• First Cow
  Kelly Reichardt
• She Dies Tomorrow
  Amy Seimetz
• The Wolf House
  Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
• Shirley
  Josephine Decker
• Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont
• Wasp Network
  Olivier Assayas
• Cut Throat City
  RZA
• Residue
  Merawi Gerima
• Possessor
  Brandon Cronenberg

Remainder, in order that is alphabetical

• The 11th Green
  Christopher Munch
• The Cordillera of Dreams
  Patricio Guzmán
• Da 5 Bloods
  Spike Lee
• The Deeper You Dig
  John Adams and Toby Poser
• F11 and Be There
  Jethro Waters
• Family Romance, LLC
  Werner Herzog
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
  Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
• The Ghost of Peter Sellers
  Peter Medak
• Ghost Tropic
  Bas Devos
• God of the Piano
  Itay Tal
• Let Him Go
  Thomas Bezucha
• Let Them All Talk
  Steven Soderbergh
• Mank
  David Fincher
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  George C. Wolfe
• Mr. SOUL!
  Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard
• My Psychedelic Love Story
  Errol Morris
• Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
  Werner Herzog
• The Personal History of David Copperfield
  Armando Iannucci
• The State Against Mandela and the Others
  Gilles Porte and Nicolas Champeaux
• Synchronic
  Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• System K
  Renaud Barret
• Tommaso
  Abel Ferrara
• To the Ends of the Earth
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• A White, White Day
  Hlynur Pálmason
• The Wild Goose Lake
  Diao Yinan
• Yourself and Yours
  Hong Sang-soo
• Zappa
  Alex Winter

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2020