Year-End Lists

Robert Daniels: Top 25 Films of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
2. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
3. One Night in Miami
   Regina King
4. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
5. Night of the Kings
   Philippe Lacôte
6. Martin Eden
   Pietro Marcello
7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
   Charlie Kaufman
8. Minari
   Lee Isaac Chung
9. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
10. Time
    Garrett Bradley
11. Babyteeth
    Shannon Murphy
12. The Platform
    Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
13. John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
    Matthew Killip
14. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
15. I'm Your Woman
    Julia Hart
16. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
17. Song Without a Name
    Melina León
18. Pillars
    Haley Elizabeth Anderson
19. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
20. Rewind
    Sasha Neulinger
21. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
22. Blow the Man Down
    Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy
23. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
24. Impetigore
    Joko Anwar
25. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart

Some film that barely missed the cut but I loved nonetheless

• The 40-Year-Old Version
  Radha Blank
• A Sun
  Chung Mong-hong
• Another Round
  Thomas Vinterberg
• Black Bear
  Lawrence Michael Levine
• Da 5 Bloods
  Spike Lee
• Ema
  Pablo Larraín
• His House
  Remi Weekes
• I'm No Longer Here
  Fernando Frías de la Parra
• The Invisible Man
  Leigh Whannell
• Kajillionaire
  Miranda July
• La Llorona
  Jayro Bustamante
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  Eliza Hittman
• Promising Young Woman
  Emerald Fennell
• Relic
  Natalie Erika James
• She Dies Tomorrow
  Amy Seimetz
• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa