Best Movies of 2020
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
MinariA family bets everything on fifty Arkansas acres, and the film never once raises its voice.Read the review
HamiltonA near ideal record of a stage phenomenon, the original Broadway cast at full strength, filmed with more intelligence than most stage captures.
The FatherThe only film about dementia that puts you inside it rather than beside it, and it is unnerving.
NomadlandA road movie with almost no plot and an entire collapsed economy sitting underneath it.
Ma Rainey's Black BottomA filmed play and unashamed of it, carried by Viola Davis's imperious Ma and Chadwick Boseman's volcanic final performance.
Another RoundFour teachers test a theory about daily drinking, and the film refuses to disown the good parts.
WolfwalkersA film whose plot you can read off the linework: hard straight lines for the town, loose scribble for the woods.
SoulPixar's most adult idea yet, smuggled into a film about a jazz pianist who dies in the first ten minutes.
Promising Young WomanTwo acts of nervy genre-swapping, then an ending that wants to indict and to satisfy at once.
Da 5 BloodsFour movies stacked on top of each other, held together by the best American screen acting of 2020.