Best of 2020: Film Critic Top Ten Lists

  • by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor
  • Publish Date: December 3, 2020
  • Comments: ↓ 1 user comment

Below, we collect every year-end Top Ten list published by major film critics and publications. This page will be updated throughout December and January whenever new lists are published; be sure to check back frequently.

Critics pick the best movies of 2020

Recent updates:
Added Jan. 21: Film School Rejects, The Film Stage (additional list), Reverse Shot, Under the Radar (additional list)
Added Jan. 9: The Beat, The Film Stage (replaced consensus list with individual contributor lists), FirstShowing, Idaho Press, IMDb, LA Weekly, The New Zealand Herald, Salt Lake City Weekly, Slashfilm (additional lists), Smashcut, Thrillist, Under the Radar, We Are Movie Geeks
Added Jan. 5: New Orleans Times-Picayune, San Antonio Current, ScreenAnarchy, Slashfilm, World of Reel
Added Jan. 1: Austin 360, Baltimore Magazine, Boston Herald, Brief Take, Canada's National Observer, Collider (Goldberg), ComingSoon.net, Consequence of Sound, CriterionCast, Daily Beast, Deadline, Den of Geek, Esquire, Film Pulse (more lists), Filmspotting, Flickering Myth, Glide, Hammer to Nail, Hyperallergic, Idolator, In Review Online, io9, JoBlo, Lincoln Journal-Star, Miami New Times, Movieweb, mxdwn, National Review, New Statesman, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Spectrum Culture, Third Coast Review, Uncut, White City Cinema, The Young Folks
Added Dec. 30: ABC News/Good Morning America, The Arts Desk, CBS News, CinemaBlend, Collider (additional lists), Detroit Metro Times, Film Pulse, IndieWire (additional lists), Misc (Tobias), Pajiba, Paste, Patriot Ledger, Sioux City Journal
Added Dec. 28: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Chicago Daily Herald, Collider (Mancuso), Gannett, HeadStuff, Little White Lies, Misc (Rothkopf), The Observer, The Salt Lake Tribune, Screen Rant, Star Tribune, The Week
Added Dec. 24: Asbury Park Press, CBC News, Chicago Sun-Times, Collider, The Film Stage, Gay City News, Houston Chronicle, Our Culture, Screen Daily, Sydney Morning Herald, Wonderland
Added Dec. 22: GameSpot, Pittsburgh Magazine, Rolling Stone (Collins), The Telegraph, Total Film, USA Today
Added Dec. 21: Ars Technica, Below the Line, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, CineVue, Complex, Dazed, Irish Times, New York Daily News, The Verge, WBUR/The ARTery, WhatCulture
Added Dec. 18: Awards Daily, Columbus Alive, The Guardian, ScreenCrush, Toronto Star, The Wrap
Added Dec. 17: Austin Chronicle, AV Club, Brightest Young Things, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian (Bradshaw), New York Post, NJArts, Vox
Added Dec. 16: Awards Campaign, IGN, The Ringer, RogerEbert.com, Screen Slate
Added Dec. 15: Exclaim!, Far Out Magazine, Flood, Harper's Bazaar, The Hollywood Reporter, Movie Nation, Slate, TimeOut, Vogue
Added Dec. 14: San Jose Mercury News, Us Weekly
Added Dec. 12: The Economist, The Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Slant
Added Dec. 11: Arizona Republic, Detroit News, People, Washington Post
Added Dec. 10: The Atlantic, NME
Added Dec. 9: AP, The Independent, NOW
Added Dec. 8: Mashable, The Playlist, Uproxx, Variety, Vulture
Added Dec. 7: Empire, HuffPost, Parade
Added Dec. 3: Scorecard launched with 13 lists

Best of 2020Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse. (We do include unranked lists of 11-20 titles, though each film gets just one-half of a point.) In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position. Our points system works as follows:

  • 3 points for each 1st place ranking
  • 2 points for each 2nd place ranking
  • 1 point for being ranked 3rd - 10th, or for being included on an unranked list of 10 or fewer titles
  • 0.5 points for being included on an unranked list of 11-20 titles
Films Mentioned on Most Critic Top 10 Lists - 2020
Movie and Metascore # 1st Place # 2nd Place # Other Points
1▣ Nomadland352075.5220.5
2▣ First Cow182081175
3▣ Lovers Rock131072131
4▣ Never Rarely Sometimes Always7889.5126.5
5▣ Da 5 Bloods10660.5102.5
6▣ Minari5953.586.5
7▣ I'm Thinking of Ending Things536586
8▣ Promising Young Woman934275
9▣ Sound of Metal574069
10▣ David Byrne's American Utopia8530.564.5
11▣ Mank4540.562.5
12▣ Palm Springs3539.558.5
13▣ Time453658
14▣ The Invisible Man0644.556.5
15▣ Bacurau2539.555.5
16▣ Soul453254
17▣ Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets7227.552.5
18▣ The Assistant2534.550.5
19▣ Dick Johnson Is Dead5230.549.5
▣ Collective3530.549.5
21▣ Martin Eden8416.548.5
22▣ The Trial of the Chicago 7333348
23▣ City Hall552247
24▣ Possessor Uncut5227.546.5
25▣ Vitalina Varela451638
26▣ Wolfwalkers123037
▣ Mangrove521837
28▣ The Vast of Night142435
29▣ Tenet222434
▣ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom103134

Note that last-minute release date changes (necessitated by the ongoing pandemic) mean that several titles included on multiple lists (most notably, Nomadland) will technically be 2021 releases rather than 2020 films. Also note that since we include some foreign publications, it is possible for a few titles to repeat from last year's list due to differences in USA and overseas release dates.

Individual critic top ten lists

Below are the 287 individual top ten lists published by the film critics regularly included in Metacritic's score calculations, as well as a few extra lists from additional prominent film sources. Some critics merely list films without ranking them in order; such lists are displayed below, without numbers, in alphabetical order.

ABC News/Good Morning America
Peter Travers View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Nomadland
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  5. First Cow
  6. Mank
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Minari
  9. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  10. Tenet
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz View full list
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  2. First Cow
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Soul
  5. Beastie Boys Story
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. Relic
  10. Boys State
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Minari
  3. Driveways
  4. Sound of Metal
  5. First Cow
  6. Saint Frances
  7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  8. Collective
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. The Assistant
Ars Technica
Staff picks View full list
  • Be Water
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • The Columnist
  • Feels Good Man
  • Insert Coin
  • The Invisible Man
  • John Bronco
  • Love and Monsters
  • Mulan
  • Palm Springs
  • Project Power
  • Still Wylde
  • Synchronic
  • Tenet
  • The Vast of Night
Erika Balsom
  1. (tie) "Defiant Muses" / "Out of the Shadows"
  2. The Year of the Discovery
  3. Days
  4. Route One/USA
  5. First Cow
  6. Apiyemiyekî?
  7. (Forum 50 Anniversary Program)
  8. The Works and Days
  9. Malni - Towards The Ocean, Towards The Shore
  10. La Loupe
Cassie da Costa
  1. Shakedown
  2. Beau Travail (re-release)
  3. Fourteen
  4. The Assistant
  5. Advocate
  6. Empty Metal
  7. Uncut Gems
  8. Harriet
  9. The Hottest August
  10. Atlantics
James Quandt
  1. The Woman Who Ran
  2. Days
  3. The Year of the Discovery
  4. Xiao Wu
  5. A Night at the Opera
  6. The Monopoly of Violence
  7. Malmkrog
  8. Notturno
  9. While Cursed by Specters
  10. Gunda
Amy Taubin View full list
  1. (The handy, affordable-to-everyone moving-image camera)
  2. I May Destroy You (HBO)
  3. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
  4. Time
  5. America
  6. Gunda
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Tesla
  9. David Byrne's American Utopia
  10. Da 5 Bloods
  11. The Monopoly of Violence
  12. MLK/FBI
  13. Collective
  14. Coded Bias
John Waters View full list
  1. Butt Boy
  2. Swallow
  3. The Hunt
  4. Why Don't You Just Die!
  5. The Audition
  6. Deerskin
  7. The Human Voice
  8. True History of the Kelly Gang
  9. American Muder: The Family Next Door
  10. Mangrove
  11. The Trial of the Chicago 7
Artforum
The Arts Desk
Staff consensus View full list
  • 1917
  • Beanpole
  • Les Miserables
  • Lovers Rock
  • Martin Eden
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • No Hard Feelings
  • Nomadland
  • Parasite
  • Time
  • Waves
Asbury Park Press
Alex Biese View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. On-Gaku: Our Sound
  3. Shirley
  4. Palm Springs
  5. The Invisible Man
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. Hamilton
  8. A Secret Love
  9. The Godfather Coda
  10. First Cow
Lindsey Bahr View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Kajillionaire
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Collective
  5. Mank
  6. On the Rocks
  7. Tenet
  8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  9. Promising Young Woman
  10. Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga
Associated Press
Jake Coyle View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Small Axe
  3. Mank
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. Minari
  6. David Byrne's American Utopia
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Soul
  9. Collective
  10. Sound of Metal
The Atlantic
David Sims View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. The Nest
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. Mank
  6. Nomadland
  7. Bacurau
  8. Tenet
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. Da 5 Bloods
Austin 360 (Austin American-Statesman)
Eric Webb View full list
  1. And Then We Danced
  2. Time
  3. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  4. Nomadland
  5. Yes, God, Yes
  6. Minari
  7. What the Constitution Means to Me
  8. Promising Young Woman
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. Extra Ordinary
Marjorie Baumgarten View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. First Cow
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Mangrove
  5. David Byrne's American Utopia
  6. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  7. City Hall
  8. Da 5 Bloods
  9. One Night in Miami
  10. Nomadland
Steve Davis View full list
  1. Mank
  2. Nomadland
  3. Black Bear
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. Emma
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. My Octopus Teacher
  8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  9. David Byrne's American Utopia
  10. Possessor Uncut
Josh Kupecki View full list
  1. City Hall
  2. Collective
  3. First Cow
  4. Kajillionaire
  5. Possessor Uncut
  6. Beanpole
  7. Swallow
  8. The Whistlers
  9. The Assistant
  10. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Matthew Monagle View full list
  1. The Lodge
  2. Emma
  3. Fourteen
  4. Relic
  5. Gamemaster
  6. Mephisto [restoration]
  7. Detention
  8. Gretel & Hansel
  9. The Old Guard
  10. The New Mutants
Jenny Nulf View full list
  1. Fallen Angels [restoration]
  2. Undine
  3. First Cow
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. Bacurau
  6. Nomadland
  7. Lovers Rock
  8. Minari
  9. Another Round
  10. The Woman Who Ran
Marc Savlov View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. Color Out of Space
  3. Possessor Uncut
  4. On the Rocks
  5. Suspiria [restoration]
  6. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
  7. Apocalypse '45
  8. Come to Daddy
  9. The Beach House
  10. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker View full list
  1. Aviva
  2. Mank
  3. Shithouse
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. 76 Days
  6. The Vast of Night
  7. We Are Little Zombies
  8. Minari
  9. Emma
  10. Host
Charles Bramesco View full list
  1. The Twentieth Century
  2. Shirley
  3. Da 5 Bloods
  4. First Cow
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. Time
  8. The Painted Bird
  9. Nomadland
  10. Vitalina Varela
Mike D'Angelo View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. A White, White Day
  3. The Grand Bizarre
  4. THe Nest
  5. Fourteen
  6. Red, White and Blue
  7. Tenet
  8. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  9. Lovers Rock
  10. The Old Guard
A.A. Dowd View full list
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  2. The Assistant
  3. The Climb
  4. First Cow
  5. Fourteen
  6. Nomadland
  7. Time
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Vitalina Varela
  10. Beanpole
Lawrence Garcia View full list
  1. I Was at Home, But …
  2. Martin Eden
  3. To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Yourself and Yours
  5. The Traitor
  6. City Hall
  7. Young Ahmed
  8. The Grand Bizarre
  9. Tommaso
  10. The Day After I'm Gone
Jesse Hassenger View full list
  1. Kajillionaire
  2. The Vast of Night
  3. First Cow
  4. Straight Up
  5. Da 5 Bloods
  6. Nomadland
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. Palm Springs
  9. The Assistant
  10. Mank
Beatrice Loayza View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. An Easy Girl
  5. Mangrove
  6. Cuties
  7. Sibyl
  8. Bacurau
  9. Swallow
  10. Sound of Metal
Noel Murray View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  3. The Whistlers
  4. Kajillionaire
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  8. Soul
  9. Mank
  10. Nomadland
Vikram Murthi View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. First Cow
  3. The Assistant
  4. A White, White Day
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. The Grand Bizarre
  8. Collective
  9. Tesla
  10. Mank
Katie Rife View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. Shirley
  4. The Assistant
  5. Collective
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. First Cow
  8. Possessor Uncut
  9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  10. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Allison Shoemaker View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. First Cow
  3. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  4. Time
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. She Dies Tomorrow
  7. Minari
  8. Black Bear
  9. Beanpole
  10. The Forty-Year-Old Version
A.V. Club
Caroline Siede View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. The Vast of Night
  3. Nomadland
  4. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  5. First Cow
  6. Beanpole
  7. Sound of Metal
  8. Birds of Prey
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. Minari
Awards Campaign (The Playlist)
Gregory Ellwood View full list
  1. Minari
  2. Nomadland
  3. Pieces of a Woman
  4. Apples
  5. New Order
  6. Soul
  7. Shirley
  8. Promising Young Woman
  9. Never Gonna Snow Again
  10. Mank
Awards Daily
Sasha Stone View full list
  1. Mank
  2. Spree
  3. News of the World
  4. Promising Young Woman
  5. Nomadland
  6. Minari
  7. One Night in Miami
  8. On the Rocks
  9. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  10. Hillbilly Elegy
Baltimore Magazine
Max Weiss View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Minari
  3. Bacurau
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. First Cow
  6. On the Rocks
  7. David Byrne's American Utopia
  8. Boys State
  9. Lovers Rock
  10. Promising Young Woman
The Beat
Staff consensus View full list
  • Assassins
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Emma
  • Enola Holmes
  • The Forty-Year-Old Version
  • Hamilton
  • Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
  • Minari
  • Nomadland
  • On the Record
  • Possessor Uncut
  • Promising Young Woman
  • Small Axe
  • Soul
  • Wolfwalkers
Below the Line
Edward Douglas View full list
  1. Beastie Boys Story
  2. Promising Young Woman
  3. Corpus Christi
  4. Minari
  5. News of the World
  6. Nomadland
  7. Hamilton
  8. Synchronic
  9. Mulan
  10. Sound of Metal
  11. Pieces of a Woman
  12. One Night in Miami
Boston Globe
Ty Burr View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Nomadland
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Palm Springs
  5. The Painter and the Thief
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. First Cow
  8. Bacurau
  9. City Hall
  10. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Boston Herald
James Verniere View full list
  • Beanpole
  • City Hall
  • The Father
  • First Cow
  • Mangrove
  • Mank
  • Minari
  • Pinocchio
  • Shirley
  • The Wolf House
Brief Take
Daniel Reynolds View full list
  1. Driveways
  2. A White, White Day
  3. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  4. Feels Good Man
  5. Palm Springs
  6. The Way Back
  7. First Cow
  8. The Assistant
  9. Inconvenient Indian
  10. Let Him Go
Brightest Young Things
Alan Zilberman View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Collective
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Nomadland
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. First Cow
  7. David Byrne's American Utopia
  8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  9. Martin Eden
  10. The Climb
Cahiers du cinéma
Staff consensus [December 2020 print edition]
  1. City Hall
  2. The Woman Who Ran
  3. Uncut Gems
  4. Malmkrog
  5. Love Affair(s)
  6. Hotel by the River
  7. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
  8. The Salt of Tears
  9. Enormous
  10. The August Virgin
Canada's National Observer
Volkmar Richter View full list
  • Bacurau
  • Beanpole
  • Collective
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • David Byrne's American Utopia
  • First Cow
  • Kuessipan
  • Mank
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • News
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
CBC News
Eli Glasner View full list
  1. Mangrove
  2. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  3. Sound of Metal
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Nomadland
  6. Palm Springs
  7. Minari
  8. The Painter and the Thief
  9. Blood Quantum
  10. Birds of Prey
CBS News
David Morgan View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Nomadland
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. 76 Days
  5. Beanpole
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. Wolfwalkers
  8. Sound of Metal
  9. Soul
  10. Lovers Rock
Chicago Daily Herald
Dann Gire View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Soul
  3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  4. Minari
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  8. First Cow
  9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  10. The Invisible Man
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  3. News of the World
  4. Soul
  5. Da 5 Bloods
  6. The Midnight Sky
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  8. Saint Frances
  9. Let Them All Talk
  10. Palm Springs
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. First Cow
  3. David Byrne's American Utopia
  4. Nomadland
  5. CIty So Real
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. The Assistant
  8. Mangrove
  9. The Vast of Night
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. A Regular Woman
  3. City Hall
  4. Emma
  5. Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. Miss Juneteenth
  8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  9. 76 Days
  10. The Vast of Night
Eric Eisenberg View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. Mank
  3. Soul
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  6. Spontaneous
  7. Sound of Metal
  8. Blow the Man Down
  9. The Social Dilemma
  10. The Lodge
CinemaBlend
Sean O'Connell View full list
  1. Soul
  2. Tenet
  3. News of the World
  4. The Kid Detective
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. One Night in Miami
  8. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  10. Uncorked
CineVue
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Possessor Uncut
  3. Mangrove
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Nomadland
  7. Shirley
  8. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  9. Host
  10. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Adam Chitwood View full list
  1. Palm Springs
  2. David Byrne's American Utopia
  3. Nomadland
  4. Promising Young Woman
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. News of the World
  7. Minari
  8. The Vast of Night
  9. Sound of Metal
  10. Mank
Haleigh Foutch View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. Relic
  3. Birds of Prey
  4. Hamilton
  5. Shirley
  6. Possessor Uncut
  7. Sound of Metal
  8. La Llorona
  9. Palm Springs
  10. Promising Young Woman
Matt Goldberg View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. Soul
  6. Palm Springs
  7. Minari
  8. Time
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. The Painter and the Thief
Vinnie Mancuso View full list
  1. Possessor Uncut
  2. The Vast of Night
  3. Sound of Metal
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. His House
  6. Promising Young Woman
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. First Cow
  9. Freaky
  10. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Perri Nemiroff View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Palm Springs
  3. The Platform
  4. His House
  5. Host
  6. Spontaneous
  7. Promising Young Woman
  8. Birds of Prey
  9. The Invisible Man
  10. Hamilton
Collider
Tom Reimann View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Bill & Ted Face the Music
  3. The Invisible Man
  4. Color Out of Space
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. Possessor Uncut
  7. His House
  8. The Vast of Night
  9. Freaky
  10. Hunter Hunter
Columbus Alive
Brad Keefe View full list
  1. Palm Springs
  2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  3. Possessor Uncut
  4. Promising Young Woman
  5. Nomadland
  6. Soul
  7. Hamilton
  8. Kajillionaire
  9. On the Rocks
  10. Black Bear
Jeff Ames View full list
  • Arkansas
  • Capone
  • Enola Holmes
  • Extraction
  • Fatman
  • The Invisible Man
  • Jungleland
  • The Kid Detective
  • The Last Shift
  • Tenet
Maggie Dela Paz View full list
  1. The Half of It
  2. The Old Guard
  3. Love and Monsters
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Max Evry View full list
  1. The Vast of Night
  2. Color Out of Space
  3. Zappa
  4. Bill & Ted Face the Music
  5. Onward
  6. Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. 1BR
  9. The Wretched
  10. Wolfman's Got Nards
Kylie Hemmert View full list
  1. The King of Staten Island
  2. The Invisible Man
  3. Tenet
  4. Love and Monsters
  5. Underwater
Grant Hermann View full list
  1. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
  2. Happiest Season
  3. The Invisible Man
  4. Palm Springs
  5. Scare Me
  6. Bill & Ted Face the Music
  7. Uncle Frank
  8. Kajillionaire
  9. The Way Back
  10. Host
ComingSoon.net
Complex
Staff View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. Saint Maud
  3. Da 5 Bloods
  4. Palm Springs
  5. The Gentlemen
  6. Miss Juneteenth
  7. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  8. Charm City Kings
  9. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  10. Tenet
Consequence of Sound
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. The Invisible Man
  3. Minari
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. Palm Springs
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Mangrove
  8. Host
  9. Birds of Prey
  10. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
CriterionCast
Joshua Brunsting View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. The Cloud in Her Room
  3. The History of the Seattle Mariners
  4. Fourteen
  5. To the Ends of the Earth
  6. Labyrinth of Cinema
  7. The Inheritance
  8. The Woman Who Ran
  9. The Giverny Document
  10. Beginning
Daily Beast
Marlow Stern View full list
  1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  2. Minari
  3. Nomadland
  4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  5. Collective
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. Bacurau
  8. Let Them All Talk
  9. Black Bear
  10. The Old Guard
Dazed
Nick Chen View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  3. Nomadland
  4. Possessor Uncut
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. Undine
  7. Rocks
  8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  9. Summer of '85
  10. Saint Maud
Pete Hammond View full list
  1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  2. News of the World
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Minari
  5. The Midnight Sky
  6. Mank
  7. Tenet
  8. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  9. The Life Ahead
  10. On the Rocks
  11. The Prom
Deadline
Todd McCarthy View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. The Father
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. Mangrove
  6. Into the Deep
  7. Soul
  8. The King of Staten Island
  9. The Outpost
  10. Devil Between the Legs
Den of Geek
Staff consensus View full list
  1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  2. The Invisible Man
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. Palm Springs
  6. Mank
  7. Birds of Prey
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. Wonder Woman 1984
  10. Nomadland
Detroit Metro Times
George Elkind View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. City Hall
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. First Cow
  5. The Wild Goose Lake
  6. Young Ahmed
  7. Possessor Uncut
  8. Tommaso
  9. We Are Little Zombies
  10. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Detroit News
Adam Graham View full list
  1. Swallow
  2. Promising Young Woman
  3. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  4. Spontaneous
  5. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  6. Black Bear
  7. Father Soldier Son
  8. The Kid Detective
  9. The Painter and the Thief
  10. Hubie Halloween
The Economist
Uncredited View full list (subscription required)
  • About Endlessness
  • Collective
  • Dark Waters
  • Host
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Lovers Rock
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Pinocchio
  • Rocks
  • Spaceship Earth
  • True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Uncut Gems
  • Wolfwalkers
Empire
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Parasite
  2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  3. Uncut Gems
  4. Rocks
  5. Saint Maud
  6. The Invisible Man
  7. Lovers Rock
  8. The Lighthouse
  9. Mank
  10. Jojo Rabbit
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Minari
  3. Soul
  4. First Cow
  5. The White Tiger
  6. Emma
  7. Kajillionaire
  8. One Night in Miami
  9. Promising Young Woman
  10. Dick Johnson Is Dead
Esquire
Nick Schager View full list
  1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  2. First Cow
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. The Painted Bird
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  6. Nomadland
  7. The Wild Goose Lake
  8. Martin Eden
  9. Minari
  10. The Assistant
Exclaim!
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Feels Good Man
  3. His House
  4. Possessor Uncut
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  8. Kajillionaire
  9. Sonic the Hedgehog
  10. The Invisible Man
Far Out Magazine
Staff consensus View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. About Endlessness
  4. Limbo
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Minari
  7. Nomadland
  8. The Woman Who Ran
  9. A Thousand Cuts
  10. Beanpole
Ken Bakely View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. What the Constitution Means to Me
  6. Blow the Man Down
  7. Nomadland
  8. Driveways
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. The Nest
Blake Crane View full list
  1. Sound of Metal
  2. Spontaneous
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Underwater
  5. Possessor Uncut
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. News of the World
  8. Nomadland
  9. Minari
  10. Palm Springs
Raul de Leon View full list
  1. Mank
  2. Bacurau
  3. A Whisker Away
  4. The Painted Bird
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Palm Springs
  7. The Painter and the Thief
  8. Rewind
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. The Twentieth Century
Chris Luciantonio View full list
  1. We Are Little Zombies
  2. Possessor Uncut
  3. Da 5 Bloods
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. Small Axe
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Wolfwalkers
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
  9. Sound of Metal
  10. The Wild Goose Lake
Adam Patterson View full list
  1. Minari
  2. The Invisible Man
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Bill & Ted Face the Music
  5. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
  6. David Byrne's American Utopia
  7. Possessor Uncut
  8. Jallikattu
  9. Bacurau
  10. Host
Film Pulse
Kevin Rakestraw View full list
  1. Talking About Trees
  2. The Grand Bizarre
  3. Time
  4. Jallikattu
  5. Girls Always Happy
  6. First Cow
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Bacurau
  9. Residue
  10. The Twentieth Century
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. First Cow
  3. Minari
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. Possessor Uncut
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Sound of Metal
  8. The Vast of Night
  9. The Assistant
  10. One Night in Miami
Film School Rejects
Adam Kempenaar View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. First Cow
  3. One Night in Miami
  4. Sound of Metal
  5. The Painter and the Thief
  6. The Truffle Hunters
  7. Mank
  8. The Trip to Greece
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Filmspotting
Josh Larsen View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Soul
  3. First Cow
  4. Vitalina Varela
  5. Relic
  6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  7. The Assistant
  8. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  10. Mangrove
Matt Cipolla View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. The Assistant
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. Vitalina Varela
  6. First Cow
  7. Black Bear
  8. The Nest
  9. Swallow
  10. Time
John Fink View full list
  1. City Hall
  2. Mangrove
  3. Nomadland
  4. Time
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Welcome to Chechnya
  7. First Cow
  8. A Sun
  9. Minari
  10. Red, White and Blue
Logan Kenny View full list
  1. To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Da 5 Bloods
  3. Undine
  4. First Cow
  5. Nomadland
  6. Siberia
  7. Bloodshot
  8. Palm Springs
  9. The Way Back
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Jared Mobarak View full list
  1. Sound of Metal
  2. Babyteeth
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Collective
  5. New Order
  6. Shadow of Violence
  7. One Night in Miami
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Jordan Raup View full list
  1. Time
  2. First Cow
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Vitalina Varela
  5. Tesla
  6. Mayor
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. City Hall
  9. Hill of Freedom
  10. Yourself and Yours
  11. Collective
Christopher Schobert View full list
  1. Education
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. David Byrne's American Utopia
  4. Sound of Metal
  5. Ema
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. Promising Young Woman
  8. Another Round
  9. The Twentieth Century
  10. Emma
Zhuo-Ning Su View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. The Metamorphosis of Birds
  3. Beginning
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. Shirley
  6. The Disciple
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. The Whaler Boy
  9. Lovers Rock
  10. The Story of Southern Islet
The Film Stage
Ryan Swen View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. To the Ends of the Earth
  3. Fourteen
  4. The Grand Bizarre
  5. I Was at Home, But …
  6. The Traitor
  7. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  8. First Cow
  9. Vitalina Varela
  10. The Whistlers
FirstShowing.net
Adam Frazier View full list
  1. Spontaneous
  2. Promising Young Woman
  3. Nomadland
  4. The Vast of Night
  5. Blow the Man Down
  6. The Invisible Man
  7. Minari
  8. Possessor Uncut
  9. Feels Good Man
  10. Color Out of Space
Flickering Myth
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Mangrove
  2. Birds of Prey
  3. Tenet
  4. Saint Maud
  5. Black Bear
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. Another Round
  8. Possessor Uncut
  9. The Invisible Man
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Flood Magazine
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  2. First Cow
  3. Time
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. Palm Springs
  6. Shirley
  7. Emma
  8. Sound of Metal
  9. Bacurau
  10. Boys State
GameSpot
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Birds of Prey
  • all others in alphabetical order
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • Bad Boys 4 Life
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Host
  • Onward
  • Palm Springs
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • The Vast of Night
  • Wonder Woman 1984
Gannett/More Content Now [syndicated to various newspapers]
Ed Symkus View full list
  • Emma
  • Gunda
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Mank
  • News of the World
  • The Painted Bird
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Soul
  • The Truffle Hunters
  • The Vast of Night
Gay City News
Steve Erickson View full list
  • Cenote
  • First Cow
  • Fourteen
  • Lovers Rock
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Possessor Uncut
  • She Dies Tomorrow
  • Still Processing
  • Time
  • Vitalina Varela
Glide Magazine
Staff consensus View full list
  • Another Round
  • Beastie Boys Story
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • The Invisible Man
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • The Painter and the Thief
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Sound of Metal
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Zappa
The Globe and Mail
Barry Hertz View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Nomadland
  3. The Platform
  4. She Dies Tomorrow
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Tenet
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. David Byrne's American Utopia
  9. Lovers Rock
  10. The Nest
  11. Minari
  12. Saint Frances
  13. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  14. The Painter and the Thief
  15. Bacurau
  16. Martin Eden
  17. Sound of Metal
  18. The Vast of Night
  19. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  20. The Trial of the Chicago 7
Consensus picks [U.S. list] View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Soul
  3. Collective
  4. Minari
  5. The Father
  6. First Cow
  7. The Assistant
  8. Mank
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. The Nest
The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw View full list
  • The Assistant
  • Clemency
  • Domains
  • The Invisible Man
  • Lovers Rock
  • Mank
  • Parasite
  • Saint Maud
  • Tenet
  • Uncut Gems
Matt Delman View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Minari
  3. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  4. Nomadland
  5. Straight Up
  6. S#!%thouse
  7. Bad Education
  8. Martin Eden
  9. The King of Staten Island
  10. World of Tomorrow, Episode III
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Reed View full list
  • 76 Days
  • Boys State
  • Bull
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  • Collective
  • Crip Camp
  • Cuties
  • Farewell Amor
  • First Cow
  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble
  • Kajillionaire
  • Mayor
  • Miss Juneteenth
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • Sorry We Missed You
  • Space Dogs
  • A Thousand Cuts
  • The Truth
Harper's Bazaar
Candice Frederick View full list
  1. On the Record
  2. Assassins
  3. Minari
  4. Miss Juneteenth
  5. Relic
  6. Sylvie's Love
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. Tigertail
  9. Promising Young Woman
  10. The Donut King
HeadStuff
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Parasite
  2. Uncut Gems
  3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  4. The Lighthouse
  5. Possessor Uncut
  6. Host
  7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  8. The Personal History of David Copperfield
  9. Waves
  10. Bliss
Jon Frosch View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. Nomadland
  3. An Easy Girl
  4. Ammonite
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  7. The Climb
  8. Beanpole
  9. The Surrogate
  10. Da 5 Bloods
Sheri Linden View full list
  1. Beanpole
  2. Gunda
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Promising Young Woman
  5. One Night in Miami
  6. Bacurau
  7. 76 Days
  8. First Cow
  9. Ammonite
  10. The Forty-Year-Old Version
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. First Cow
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Ammonite
  5. Beanpole
  6. Minari
  7. Promising Young Woman
  8. Nomadland
  9. Lovers Rock
  10. Bacurau
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. Soul
  4. A Sun
  5. The Father
  6. Sound of Metal
  7. One Night in Miami
  8. Beasts Clawing at Straws
  9. Time
  10. The Trial of the Chicago 7
HuffPost
Matthew Jacobs View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Promising Young Woman
  3. Minari
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. First Cow
  6. Kajillionaire
  7. Bad Education
  8. David Byrne's American Utopia
  9. Bacurau
  10. The Forty-Year-Old Version
Hyperallergic
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Time
  2. Bacurau
  3. Small Axe
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. First Cow
  6. Vitalina Varela
  7. I May Destroy You
  8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. Shirley
Idaho Press
Sean McBride View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Minari
  3. One Night in Miami
  4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  5. Mank
  6. Soul
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  9. Miss Juneteenth
  10. Dick Johnson Is Dead
Idolator
Mike Wass View full list
  1. The True History of the Kelly Gang
  2. Beanpole
  3. Possessor Uncut
  4. First Cow
  5. Synonyms
  6. Babyteeth
  7. Corpus Christi
  8. The Truth
  9. Relic
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
IGN
Staff consensus View full list
  • Birds of Prey
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Emma
  • The Invisible Man
  • One Night in Miami
  • Palm Springs
  • Tenet
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Wonder Woman 1984
Col Needham View full list
  1. Tenet
  2. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Sylvie's Love
  5. Ammonite
  6. Mank
  7. Another Round
  8. One Night in Miami
  9. Misbehaviour
  10. Shirley
IMDb
Keith Simanton View full list
  1. One Night in Miami
  2. Tenet
  3. Hamilton
  4. Ammonite
  5. Shadow in the Cloud
  6. News of the World
  7. Nomadland
  8. Another Round
  9. Palm Springs
  10. The Invisible Man
In Review Online
Staff consensus View full list
  1. To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Vitalina Varela
  3. Martin Eden
  4. First Cow
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. Yourself and Yours
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  9. Liberté
  10. Fourteen
The Independent [UK]
Clarisse Loughrey View full list
  1. Parasite
  2. Jojo Rabbit
  3. Shirley
  4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. Uncut Gems
  8. Vitalina Varela
  9. The Assistant
  10. And Then We Danced
David Ehrlich View full list Watch Ehrlich's annual video coutdown
  1. Time
  2. Minari
  3. World of Tomorrow, Episode III
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Bacurau
  7. Nomadland
  8. David Byrne's American Utopia
  9. Bad Education
  10. Swallow
Kate Erbland View full list
  • The Assistant
  • Emma
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • The Invisible Man
  • Lovers Rock
  • Minari
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • One Night in Miami
  • Palm Springs
  • Promising Young Woman
  • Saint Frances
  • Time
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Wolfwalkers
Eric Kohn View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. Collective
  4. Nomadland
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Time
  7. The Climb
  8. The Mole Agent
  9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  10. Bacurau
Anne Thompson View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Da 5 Bloods
  3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  4. One Night in Miami
  5. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. David Byrne's American Utopia
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Farewell Amor
  10. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
IndieWire
io9
Staff consensus View full list
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • Birds of Prey
  • His House
  • The Invisible Man
  • Lupin III The First
  • The Old Guard
  • Palm Springs
  • Possessor Uncut
  • Relic
  • The Vast of Night
  • Weathering With You
  • Wolfwalkers
The Irish Times
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady View full list
  1. The Personal History of David Copperfield
  2. The Painted Bird
  3. Parasite
  4. Bacurau
  5. Uncut Gems
  6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  7. The Lighthouse
  8. The Assistant
  9. Relic
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Chris Bumbray View full list
  1. Sound of Metal
  2. Nomadland
  3. Tenet
  4. Mank
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Synchronic
  7. Palm Springs
  8. Possessor Uncut
  9. The Invisible Man
  10. The Gentlemen
JimmyO View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. Love and Monsters
  3. Nomadland
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Sound of Metal
  6. Beastie Boys Story
  7. Possessor Uncut
  8. Aviva
  9. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
JoBlo
Matt Rooney View full list
  1. Minari
  2. Nomadland
  3. The Personal History of David Copperfield
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  6. The Invisible Man
  7. Palm Springs
  8. Promising Young Woman
  9. Sound of Metal
  10. Lovers Rock
Chad Byrnes View full list
  1. The Nest
  2. The Sound of Metal
  3. News of the World
  4. Mank
  5. Possessor Uncut
  6. I'm Your Woman
  7. The Assistant
  8. Bad Education
  9. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
  10. The Invisible Man
Lina Lecaro View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Cuties
  3. Miss Americana
  4. Hillary
  5. The Go-Go's
  6. Birds of Prey
  7. Emma
  8. Beastie Boys Story
  9. Color Out of Space
  10. Stardust
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson View full list
  1. Driveways
  2. Time
  3. The Truth
  4. Swallow
  5. Residue
  6. Straight Up
  7. My Dog Stupid
  8. Crip Camp
  9. The 24th
  10. River CIty Drumbeat
Lincoln Journal-Star
L. Kent Wolgamott View full list
  • Ammonite
  • Babyteeth
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Clemency
  • Corpus Christi
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Let Him Go
  • Mank
  • Possessor Uncut
Little White Lies
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Small Axe
  2. Nomadland
  3. First Cow
  4. Promising Young Woman
  5. About Endlessness
  6. Shirley
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Time
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. Rocks
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang View full list
  1. Vitalina Varela
  2. Time
  3. Nomadland
  4. First Cow
  5. Martin Eden
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. City Hall
  8. Collective
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. Beanpole
Mashable
Angie Han View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. First Cow
  3. Da 5 Bloods
  4. Time
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. Promising Young Woman
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
  9. Palm Springs
  10. The Trial of the Chicago 7
Miami New Times
Juan Antonio Barquin View full list
  1. Circle Jerk
  2. David Byrne's American Utopia
  3. Dry Wind
  4. Shirley
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Possessor Uncut
  7. Time
  8. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
  9. Ride Your Wave
  10. Driveways
Joshua Rothkopf View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. Nomadland
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Kajillionaire
  5. Mangrove
  6. The Nest
  7. Welcome to Chechnya
  8. The Invisible Man
  9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  10. Bacurau
Miscellaneous/Unaffiliated
Scott Tobias View full list
  1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  2. The Assistant
  3. First Cow
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. Nomadland
  6. Bacurau
  7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  9. Beanpole
  10. The Nest
Movie Nation
Roger Moore View full list
  • Another Round
  • Beasts Clawing at Straws
  • Bull
  • Emma
  • The Father
  • News of the World
  • Nomadland
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Red, White and Wasted
  • Wolfwalkers
Movieweb
Julian Roman View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Soul
  3. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  4. The Kid Detective
  5. Minari
  6. First Cow
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. Small Axe
mxdwn
Staff View full list
  1. Soul
  2. The Invisible Man
  3. Wonder Woman 1984
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. Onward
  6. Birds of Prey
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  10. The King of Staten Island
National Review
Kyle Smith View full list
  1. Onward
  2. The Gentlemen
  3. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  5. The Father
  6. Apocalypse '45
  7. Desert One
  8. Balloon
  9. On the Rocks
  10. Crock of Gold
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Mike Scott View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  3. Time
  4. Nomadland
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. Soul
  8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  9. News of the World
  10. Mank
New Statesman
Ryan Gilbey View full list
  1. Parasite
  2. Babyteeth
  3. End of the Century
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Dark Waters
  6. Collective
  7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  8. Mank
  9. Lynn+Lucy
  10. His House
New York Daily News
Peter Sblendorio View full list
  • Birds of Prey
  • Hamilton
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Mank
  • Mulan
  • News of the World
  • Promising Young Woman
  • Soul
  • Tenet
  • Wonder Woman 1984
Johnny Oleksinski View full list
  1. Mank
  2. Boys State
  3. The King of Staten Island
  4. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  5. On the Rocks
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. Onward
  8. Pieces of a Woman
  9. Palm Springs
  10. The Personal History of David Copperfield
New York Post
Sara Stewart View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. Nomadland
  3. News of the World
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. The Vast of Night
  6. Host
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  8. Crip Camp
  9. Mucho Mucho Amor
  10. Minari
Manohla Dargis View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. City Hall
  3. Gunda
  4. David Byrne's American Utopia
  5. Bacurau
  6. First Cow
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Collective
  9. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  10. Beanpole
The New York Times
A.O. Scott View full list
  1. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  2. City Hall
  3. Collective
  4. First Cow
  5. Martin Eden
  6. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  7. Palm Springs
  8. Bacurau
  9. David Byrne's American Utopia
  10. Lovers Rock
  11. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  12. Soul
The New Yorker
Richard Brody View full list (account required)
  1. Kajillionaire
  2. Da 5 Bloods
  3. The Whistlers
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. An Easy Girl
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. On the Rocks
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Time
  10. City Hall
The New Zealand Herald
Weniel Ma View full list
  • The Assistant
  • Corpus Christi
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • A Hidden Life
  • Little Women
  • Mank
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • Palm Springs
  • Soul
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
NJArts.net
Stephen Whitty View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. The Father
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Sorry We Missed You
  5. First Cow
  6. Welcome to Chechnya
  7. Martin Eden
  8. Mank
  9. On the Rocks
  10. Da 5 Bloods
NME
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Parasite
  3. Uncut Gems
  4. David Byrne's American Utopia
  5. Tenet
  6. Hamilton
  7. Rocks
  8. Host
  9. Birds of Prey
  10. Saint Maud
Kevin Ritchie View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. She Dies Tomorrow
  3. An Easy Girl
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. Black Bear
  6. The Inheritance
  7. The 40-Year-Old Version
  8. On the Rocks
  9. Cuties
  10. Feels Good Man
Radheyan Simonpillai View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. Residue
  4. Nomadland
  5. Gunda
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. Time
  8. Collective
  9. Rocks
  10. Hamilton
NOW (Toronto)
Norman Wilner View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Minari
  3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  4. Collective
  5. Sound of Metal
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. First Cow
  8. David Byrne's American Utopia
  9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  10. Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Observer [UK]
Mark Kermode View full list
  1. Saint Maud
  2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  3. Parasite
  4. Relic
  5. Clemency
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Rocks
  8. Saint Frances
  9. Wolfwalkers
  10. The Personal History of David Copperfield
Our Culture
Staff consensus View full list
  • 1917
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Disclosure
  • How From Beyond the Fog
  • My Octopus Teacher
  • On the Rocks
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Sanzaru
  • Sound of Metal
  • Uncut Gems
Pajiba
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. First Cow
  3. Sound of Metal
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Saint Frances
  6. One Night in Miami
  7. Nomadland
  8. Small Axe
  9. Bacurau
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Parade
Samuel R. Murrian View full list
  1. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  2. Nomadland
  3. David Byrne's American Utopia
  4. Relic
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. Promising Young Woman
  7. Wolfwalkers
  8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  9. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  10. One Night in Miami
Paste
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. First Cow
  4. Soul
  5. Martin Eden
  6. Wolfwalkers
  7. The Vast of Night
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. His House
  10. Time
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.)
Al Alexander View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. Nomadland
  3. Mank
  4. The Assistant
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Beanpole
  7. Sorry We Missed You
  8. Boys State
  9. Palm Springs
  10. The Painted Bird
People
Tom Gliatto View full list
  1. Soul
  2. Palm Springs
  3. Bad Education
  4. Hamilton
  5. News of the World
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. Black Is King
  8. Tenet
  9. On the Rocks
  10. Da 5 Bloods
Pittsburgh Magazine
Sean Collier View full list
  1. The Forty-Year-Old Version
  2. Da 5 Bloods
  3. Minari
  4. Soul
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Sound of Metal
  7. Promising Young Woman
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. The Lodge
The Playlist
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. First Cow
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. David Byrne's American Utopia
  6. Sound of Metal
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  10. Minari
Reverse Shot
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Days
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Time
  4. I Was at Home, But …
  5. Bacurau
  6. Vitalina Varela
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. First Cow
  10. Malmkrog
  11. To the Ends of the Earth
The Ringer
Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Mangrove
  3. Mank
  4. First Cow
  5. Boys State
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. The Vast of Night
  8. Time
  9. Nomadland
  10. Vitalina Varela
  11. Soul
Simon Abrams View full list
  1. Son of the White Mare
  2. Vitalina Varela
  3. I Wish I Knew
  4. The Wild Goose Lake
  5. Time
  6. On the Rocks
  7. I Was at Home, But …
  8. Jallikattu
  9. The Twentieth Century
  10. The 11th Green
Carlos Aguilar View full list
  1. Wolfwalkers
  2. Nomadland
  3. Minari
  4. A Sun
  5. I'm No Longer Here
  6. The Climb
  7. I Carry You With Me
  8. The Wolf House
  9. Sound of Metal
  10. Los Lobos
Nick Allen View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Spree
  3. Nomadland
  4. The Climb
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  7. Driveways
  8. Rent a Pal
  9. Boys State
  10. Coded Bias
Monica Castillo View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Bacurau
  3. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  4. Collective
  5. The Vast of Night
  6. The Assistant
  7. Wolfwalkers
  8. Mucho Mucho Amor
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  10. I'm No Longer Here
Godfrey Cheshire View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. Beanpole
  3. Born to Be
  4. Sorry We Missed You
  5. First Cow
  6. Young Ahmed
  7. City Hall
  8. Nomadland
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. Desert One
Seongyong Cho View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. House of Hummingbird
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. Beanpole
  6. Sorry We Missed You
  7. Los Lobos
  8. Babyteeth
  9. Driveways
  10. Sound of Metal
Robert Daniels View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. Nomadland
  3. One Night in Miami
  4. First Cow
  5. Night of the Kings
  6. Martin Eden
  7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  8. Minari
  9. Lovers Rock
  10. Time
Mark Dujsik View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. The Invisible Man
  3. Sorry We Missed You
  4. Nomadland
  5. Hamilton
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  7. The Father
  8. Minari
  9. Corpus Christi
  10. Wolfwalkers
Matt Fagerholm View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Mangrove
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Beanpole
  5. Rewind
  6. Nomadland
  7. Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint
  8. The Assistant
  9. Finding Yingying
  10. The Father
Isaac Feldberg View full list
  1. Possessor Uncut
  2. First Cow
  3. La Llorona
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. Residue
  6. Minari
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. Relic
  9. Driveways
  10. The Dark and the Wicked
Michael Frank View full list
  1. Minari
  2. First Cow
  3. Nomadland
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. Da 5 Bloods
  6. Beginning
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Another Round
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. Shithouse
Roxana Hadadi View full list
  1. Saint Frances
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. Minari
  4. Driveways
  5. First Cow
  6. Miss Juneteenth
  7. True History of the Kelly Gang
  8. The Assistant
  9. His House
  10. Red, White and Blue
Odie Henderson View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. Da 5 Bloods
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Nomadland
  5. Hamilton
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. His House
  8. Time
  9. The Old Guard
  10. The Truth
Brendan Hodges View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. First Cow
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Mank
  5. Beanpole
  6. Mangrove
  7. Tenet
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. The Assistant
  10. Emma
Soren Hough View full list
  1. Farewell Amor
  2. The Salt in Our Waters
  3. Mogul Mowgli
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Herself
  6. Mangrove
  7. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  8. African Apocalypse
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. Another Round
Ben Kenigsberg View full list
  • The Assistant
  • Bacurau
  • Beanpole
  • City Hall
  • The Climb
  • Collective
  • First Cow
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Red, White and Blue
  • The Wild Goose Lake
Glenn Kenny View full list
  1. Vitalina Varela
  2. First Cow
  3. She Dies Tomorrow
  4. The Wolf House
  5. Shirley
  6. Joan of Arc
  7. Wasp Network
  8. Cut Throat City
  9. Residue
  10. Possessor Uncut
Jonah Koslofsky View full list
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  2. The Assistant
  3. She Dies Tomorrow
  4. Palm Springs
  5. First Cow
  6. Lovers Rock
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. Da 5 Bloods
  9. Nomadland
  10. His House
Tomris Laffly View full list
  1. The Assistant
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Martin Eden
  6. Nomadland
  7. The Wolf House
  8. The Nest
  9. Mayor
  10. Crip Camp
Christy Lemire View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. The Nest
  3. Sound of Metal
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. Minari
  6. First Cow
  7. Nomadland
  8. The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
  9. Promising Young Woman
  10. Collective
Mary Beth McAndrews View full list
  1. Possessor Uncut
  2. Relic
  3. The Dark and the Wicked
  4. She Dies Tomorrow
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Host
  7. Shirley
  8. Sound of Metal
  9. Swallow
  10. Murder Death Koreatown
Nell Minow View full list
  • Mank
  • Miss Juneteenth
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • The Outpost
  • Palm Springs
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Soul
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • The Vast of Night
Jana Monji View full list
  • 76 Days
  • Ainu Mosir
  • Athlete A
  • The Father
  • Hamilton
  • The Midnight Sky
  • My Octopus Teacher
  • The Painter and the Thief
  • Weathering With You
  • Wolfwalkers
Max O'Connell View full list
  1. Vitalina Varela
  2. Martin Eden
  3. First Cow
  4. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  5. Bacurau
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. Lovers Rock
  8. Fourteen
  9. Fire Will Come
  10. Tesla
Sheila O'Malley View full list
  • Bacurau
  • Beanpole
  • Collective
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Minari
  • The Nest
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Lovers Rock
  • Time
  • The Vast of Night
Kristy Puchko View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga
  3. Swallow
  4. The Painter and the Thief
  5. Wolfwalkers
  6. First Cow
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Sound of Metal
  9. One Night in Miami
  10. Nomadland
Barbara Scharres View full list
  • Another Round
  • Apples
  • Beasts Clawing at Straws
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • City Hall
  • Crock of Gold
  • Nomadland
  • One Night in Miami
  • Thumbs Up for Mother Universe
  • Unapologetic
Marshall Shaffer View full list
  1. The Assistant
  2. Boys State
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. Driveways
  5. Palm Springs
  6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  7. Time
  8. City Hall
  9. Soul
  10. Gunda
Justine Smith View full list
  1. DAU. Natasha
  2. City Hall
  3. The Metamorphosis of Birds
  4. Mon amour
  5. Inventing the Future
  6. Nomadland
  7. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
  8. Siberia
  9. It Must Be Heaven
  10. The Assistant
Peter Sobczynski View full list
  1. On the Rocks
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. Spontaneous
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. First Cow
  6. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
  7. City Hall
  8. The Vast of Night
  9. David Byrne's American Utopia
  10. Nomadland
Collin Souter View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. David Byrne's American Utopia
  3. Soul
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Sorry We Missed You
  6. Boys State
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. Palm Springs
  9. First Cow
  10. The Vast of Night
Scout Tafoya View full list
  1. About Endlessness
  2. It Must Be Heaven
  3. The Amusement Park
  4. Tesla
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. City Hall
  7. Her Socialist Smile
  8. Wolfwalkers
  9. Night of the Kings
  10. His House
Brian Tallerico View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Da 5 Bloods
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Beanpole
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. David Byrne's American Utopia
  7. The Nest
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. Time
Shea Vassar View full list
  1. Beans
  2. Yes God Yes
  3. Summer of '85
  4. Little Chief
  5. Emma
  6. Host
  7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  8. Blood Quantum
  9. One Night in Miami
  10. The Best Is Yet to Come
Matt Zoller Seitz View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. Tommaso
  3. Marona's Fantastic Tale
  4. First Cow
  5. The Nest
  6. Bacurau
  7. David Byrne's American Utopia
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Sorry We Missed You
  10. Cut Throat City
RogerEbert.com
K. Austin Collins View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. Time
  3. Vitalina Varela
  4. Fire Will Come
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  6. Red, White and Blue
  7. City Hall
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Fourteen
  10. First Cow
  11. Residue
Rolling Stone
David Fear View full list
  1. Collective
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. David Byrne's American Utopia
  4. First Cow
  5. Bacurau
  6. Time
  7. Minari
  8. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  9. Martin Eden
  10. Nomadland
Salt Lake City Weekly
Scott Renshaw View full list
  1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  2. First Cow
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Another Round
  6. Fourteen
  7. Collective
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
  9. David Byrne's American Utopia
  10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means View full list
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  2. Soul
  3. Aviva
  4. Nomadland
  5. Sylvie's Love
  6. Hamilton
  7. The Climb
  8. Kajillionaire
  9. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  10. Dick Johnson Is Dead
San Antonio Current
Kiko Martinez View full list
  1. Minari
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  4. Sound of Metal
  5. La Llorona
  6. The Assistant
  7. The Painted Bird
  8. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  9. Feels Good Man
  10. My Octopus Teacher
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle View full list
  • Black Bear
  • Coastal Elites
  • Happiest Season
  • I'm Your Woman
  • The King of Staten Island
  • Most Dangerous Game
  • On the Rocks
  • Pieces of a Woman
  • Promising Young Woman
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
Jeffrey M. Anderson View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Vitalina Varela
  3. On the Rocks
  4. The Vast of Night
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. David Byrne's American Utopia
  8. Da 5 Bloods
  9. Hamilton
  10. She Dies Tomorrow
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Mank
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  4. First Cow
  5. Collective
  6. City Hall
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. Mangrove
  9. The Truth
  10. The Painter and the Thief
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers View full list
  1. Driveways
  2. Nomadland
  3. Minari
  4. Small Axe
  5. Collective
  6. Bacurau
  7. First Cow
  8. Promising Young Woman
  9. Mank
  10. Wolfwalkers
ScreenAnarchy
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Possessor Uncut
  2. First Cow
  3. Nomadland
  4. Mank
  5. Relic
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  8. Another Round
  9. Palm Springs
  10. Lovers Rock
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. David Byrne's American Utopia
  3. Soul
  4. Sound of Metal
  5. Nomadland
  6. The Invisible Man
  7. First Cow
  8. Collective
  9. Minari
  10. Lovers Rock
Tim Grierson View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. New Order
  3. The Nest
  4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  5. She Dies Tomorrow
  6. Days
  7. The Father
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. The Surrogate
  10. Relic
Fionnuala Halligan View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. The Nest
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Limbo
  6. Nomadland
  7. Quo Vadis, Aida?
  8. Another Round
  9. New Order
  10. Sweat
Allan Hunter View full list
  1. Limbo
  2. Nomadland
  3. Quo Vadis, Aida?
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. Wolfwalkers
  6. Minari
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. New Order
  9. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
  10. Another Round
Wendy Ide View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. The Assistant
  3. Kala Azar
  4. Limbo
  5. Wolfwalkers
  6. Apples
  7. Mangrove
  8. Sweat
  9. Soul
  10. The Cloud in Her Room
Screen Daily
Jonathan Romney View full list
  1. The Disciple
  2. New Order
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. The Trouble With Being Born
  5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  6. Days
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. The World to Come
  9. Possessor Uncut
  10. Genus Pan
Screen Rant
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Hamilton
  2. Palm Springs
  3. Birds of Prey
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Emma
  6. Tenet
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  9. Mank
  10. Host
Screen Slate
Staff consensus View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Time
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Days
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Martin Eden
  7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  8. Vitalina Varela
  9. Bacurau
  10. City Hall
Sioux City Journal
Bruce R. Miller View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. Minari
  4. Hamilton
  5. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  6. Boys State
  7. Soul
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. First Cow
  10. Mank
Chris Barsanti View full list
  1. Collective
  2. Nomadland
  3. The Vast of Night
  4. The Wild Goose Lake
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. First Cow
  7. The Painter and the Thief
  8. Palm Springs
  9. The Assistant
  10. 76 Days
Chuck Bowen View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. City Hall
  3. Yourself and Yours
  4. First Cow
  5. The 40-Year-Old Version
  6. Joan of Arc
  7. On the Rocks
  8. Fourteen
  9. Vitalina Varela
  10. Gunda
Pat Brown View full list
  1. Sorry We Missed You
  2. David Byrne's American Utopia
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Nomadland
  5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  6. Space Dogs
  7. The Wolf House
  8. First Cow
  9. To the Ends of the Earth
  10. The Grand Bizarre
Jake Cole View full list
  1. Vitalina Varela
  2. First Cow
  3. Time
  4. Shirley
  5. Bacurau
  6. Da 5 Bloods
  7. The Grand Bizarre
  8. Martin Eden
  9. She Dies Tomorrow
  10. To the Ends of the Earth
Ben Flanagan View full list
  1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  2. Martin Eden
  3. The Invisible Man
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. David Byrne's American Utopia
  6. Zombi Child
  7. Vitalina Varela
  8. City Hall
  9. Bacurau
  10. Time
Ed Gonzalez View full list
  1. City Hall
  2. To the Ends of the Earth
  3. Tommaso
  4. The Cordillera of Dreams
  5. The Grand Bizarre
  6. Welcome to Chechnya
  7. Space Dogs
  8. Ghost Tropic
  9. Time
  10. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Christopher Gray View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. First Cow
  4. To the Ends of the Earth
  5. Time
  6. City Hall
  7. Tesla
  8. The Assistant
  9. The Cordillera of Dreams
  10. Ham on Rye
Wes Greene View full list
  1. David Byrne's American Utopia
  2. Bacurau
  3. Fourteen
  4. Sorry We Missed You
  5. The Wild Goose Lake
  6. Zombi Child
  7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  8. The Whistlers
  9. City Hall
  10. The Grand Bizarre
Carson Lund View full list
  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  3. The Whistlers
  4. Vitalina Varela
  5. Fourteen
  6. First Cow
  7. Ghost Tropic
  8. Tesla
  9. Pahokee
  10. Liberté
Sam C. Mac View full list
  1. Inventing the Future
  2. Coronation
  3. To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Zombi Child
  5. Black Is King
  6. Yourself and Yours
  7. A Family Tour
  8. Da 5 Bloods
  9. A Rainy Day in New York
  10. I've Got a Little Problem
David Robb View full list
  1. To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Vitalina Varela
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. Kajillionaire
  5. The Wild Goose Lake
  6. Nomadland
  7. She Dies Tomorrow
  8. First Cow
  9. The Vast of Night
  10. Ham on Rye
Steven Scaife View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. The Wolf House
  3. The Grand Bizarre
  4. The Twentieth Century
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. Tommaso
  7. Vitalina Varela
  8. Birds of Prey
  9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  10. Song Without a Name
Diego Semerene View full list
  1. Liberté
  2. Donbass
  3. This Is Not a Movie
  4. Another Round
  5. Around the World When You Were My Age
  6. The Painter and the Thief
  7. Welcome to Chechnya
  8. Collective
  9. The Grand Bizarre
  10. Dating Amber
Derke Smith View full list
  1. City Hall
  2. The Wolf House
  3. To the Ends of the Earth
  4. The Grand Bizarre
  5. Space Dogs
  6. The Cordillera of Dreams
  7. Lovers Rock
  8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  9. The Painter and the Thief
  10. Tesla
Slant
Keith Watson View full list
  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. First Cow
  3. Vitalina Varela
  4. Lovers Rock
  5. The Twentieth Century
  6. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  7. Collective
  8. Tommaso
  9. Time
  10. Joan of Arc
Ethan Anderton View full list
  1. Soul
  2. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  3. One Night in Miami
  4. Minari
  5. Bad Education
  6. Wolfwalkers
  7. Nomadland
  8. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  9. Sound of Metal
  10. The Trial of the Chicago 7
Hoai-Tran Bui View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Wolfwalkers
  3. Shirley
  4. Sound of Metal
  5. First Cow
  6. The Painter and the Thief
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. Lovers Rock
  9. Palm Springs
  10. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Jeff Cannata View full list
  1. Sound of Metal
  2. Palm Springs
  3. Kajillionaire
  4. The Nest
  5. Boys State
  6. First Cow
  7. The Vast of Night
  8. Bad Education
  9. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
  10. His House
David Chen View full list
  1. Sound of Metal
  2. Boys State
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Palm Springs
  6. Possessor Uncut
  7. Mangrove
  8. Minari
  9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  10. Hamilton
Chris Evangelista View full list
  1. Possessor Uncut
  2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  3. Nomadland
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Shirley
  6. First Cow
  7. Minari
  8. Da 5 Bloods
  9. Mank
  10. Freaky
Jacob Hall View full list
  1. Palm Springs
  2. Wolfwalkers
  3. Soul
  4. The Painter and the Thief
  5. Sound of Metal
  6. Bacurau
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. The Personal History of David Copperfield
  9. His House
  10. Relic
Devindra Hardawar View full list
  1. Bacurau
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. The Nest
  5. Another Round
  6. Martin Eden
  7. Da 5 Bloods
  8. The Invisible Man
  9. Birds of Prey
  10. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Slashfilm
Ben Pearson View full list
  1. Sylvie's Love
  2. The Vast of Night
  3. Sound of Metal
  4. Mangrove
  5. Da 5 Bloods
  6. Promising Young Woman
  7. The Painter and the Thief
  8. Palm Springs
  9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  10. Unpregnant
Slate
Dana Stevens View full list
  • The Assistant
  • Bacurau
  • Beanpole
  • Collective
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • First Cow
  • Let Them All Talk
  • Minari
  • Nomadland
  • Saint Maud
Smashcut
Michael Atkinson View full list
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  2. Nomadland
  3. Gunda
  4. The Wolf House
  5. Ham on Rye
  6. The Vast of Night
  7. Beanpole
  8. Bacurau
  9. First Cow
  10. Dick Johnson Is Dead
Spectrum Culture
Staff consensus View full list
  • Bacurau
  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • First Cow
  • Fourteen
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • The Invisible Man
  • Lovers Rock
  • Mank
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • Palm Springs
  • Possessor Uncut
  • She Dies Tomorrow
  • Sound of Metal
  • Tenet
  • The Wild Goose Lake
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Chris Hewitt View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Collective
  3. Soul
  4. Minari
  5. Let Him Go
  6. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  8. The Invisible Man
  9. News of the World
  10. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Sydney Morning Herald
Staff consensus View full list
  • 1917
  • The Assistant
  • Babyteeth
  • Corpus Christi
  • Hamilton
  • Hearts and Bones
  • Honeyland
  • Kajillionaire
  • Nomadland
  • A Rainy Day in New York
  • Totally Under Control
The Telegraph
Robbie Collin View full list
  1. Uncut Gems
  2. Mank
  3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  4. Soul
  5. The Lighthouse
  6. Parasite
  7. Rocks
  8. Make Up
  9. Tenet
  10. Saint Maud
Third Coast Review
Steve Prokopy View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. First Cow
  4. Small Axe
  5. The Assistant
  6. One Night in Miami
  7. Promising Young Woman
  8. Sound of Metal
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. The Nest
Thrillist
Dan Jackson View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Bacurau
  3. Time
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. Da 5 Bloods
  6. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  7. Tenet
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
  9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  10. Shirley
Time
Stephanie Zacharek View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. Collective
  3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  4. David Byrne's American Utopia
  5. Lovers Rock
  6. Emma
  7. Wolfwalkers
  8. Nomadland
  9. Miss Juneteenth
  10. Bill & Ted Face the Music
TimeOut
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Parasite
  2. Rocks
  3. Saint Maud
  4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  5. A Hidden Life
  6. Uncut Gems
  7. Lovers Rock
  8. 1917
  9. The Lighthouse
  10. Les Miserables
Toronto Star
Peter Howell View full list
  1. Nomadland
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Mank
  5. Tenet
  6. Minari
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  8. First Cow
  9. Inconvenient Indian
  10. Anne at 13,000 ft
Total Film
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Tenet
  2. Parasite
  3. Uncut Gems
  4. Mank
  5. Soul
  6. The Lighthouse
  7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  8. The Invisible Man
  9. Saint Maud
  10. The Assistant
Uncut
Staff consensus [January 2021 issue]
  1. Parasite
  2. Uncut Gems
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  4. David Byrne's American Utopia
  5. The Devil All the Time
  6. The Painted Bird
  7. A Hidden Life
  8. The True History of the Kelly Gang
  9. Rocks
  10. Dark Waters
Asher Luberto View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. Nomadland
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Wolfwalkers
  5. Minari
  6. Crip Camp
  7. Driveways
  8. Fire Will Come
  9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  10. Get Duked!
Under the Radar
Kaveh Jalinous View full list
  1. First Cow
  2. David Byrne's American Utopia
  3. Minari
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. Nomadland
  6. Time
  7. Sound of Metal
  8. Shithouse
  9. Another Round
  10. Mangrove
Uproxx
Staff consensus View full list
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • Extraction
  • First Cow
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • The Invisible Man
  • The King of Staten Island
  • Lovers Rock
  • Minari
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • One Night in Miami
  • Palm Springs
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
Us Weekly
Mara Reinstein View full list
  1. Promising Young Woman
  2. Palm Springs
  3. The Prom
  4. Minari
  5. Da 5 Bloods
  6. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. Bad Education
  9. Nomadland
  10. Taylor Swift: Miss Americana
USA Today
Brian Truitt View full list
  1. One Night in Miami
  2. The Prom
  3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. Sound of Metal
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  7. His House
  8. Promising Young Woman
  9. The Invisible Man
  10. The Vast of Night
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson View full list
  1. The Nest
  2. Minari
  3. Collective
  4. Bad Education
  5. Nomadland
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Bacurau
  8. Freaky
  9. Let Them All Talk
  10. Shithouse
Peter Debruge View full list
  1. A Sun
  2. Saint Frances
  3. Soul
  4. Herself
  5. Nomadland
  6. Mangrove
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  8. A White, White Day
  9. Antebellum
  10. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Variety
Owen Gleiberman View full list
  1. Mangrove
  2. Sorry We Missed You
  3. Mank
  4. The Outpost
  5. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. The Prom
  8. Minari
  9. The Invisible Man
  10. David Byrne's American Utopia
The Verge
Joshua Rivera View full list
  • The Assistant
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • Birds of Prey
  • Boys State
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • First Cow
  • The Invisible Man
  • La Llorona
  • Lovers Rock
Vogue
Staff consensus View full list
  • Bacurau
  • An Easy Girl
  • Emma
  • His House
  • Kajillionaire
  • Let Them All Talk
  • Lovers Rock
  • The Nest
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • On the Rocks
  • Palm Springs
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Saint Frances
  • Sound of Metal
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson View full list
  1. The Painter and the Thief
  2. Mayor
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. Driveways
  6. The Assistant
  7. Another Round
  8. Time
  9. First Cow
  10. Beanpole
Angelica Jade Bastién View full list
  1. Lovers Rock
  2. The Nest
  3. Black Bear
  4. Possessor: Uncut
  5. Another Round
  6. Shirley
  7. Kindred
  8. I'm Your Woman
  9. Miss Juneteenth
  10. Console Wars
Bilge Ebiri View full list
  1. Martin Eden
  2. Time
  3. Da 5 Bloods
  4. Beanpole
  5. Collective
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. Tenet
  8. Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga
  9. The Old Guard
  10. Mayor
Vulture
Alison Willmore View full list
  1. Bacurau
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. Time
  4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
  5. The Assistant
  6. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  7. Beanpole
  8. Martin Eden
  9. Another Round
  10. Relic
The Washington Post
Ann Hornaday View full list
  1. Small Axe
  2. Nomadland
  3. First Cow
  4. Miss Juneteenth
  5. The Personal History of David Copperfield
  6. Palm Springs
  7. The Assistant
  8. The Half of It
  9. The Trip to Greece
  10. Host
WBUR/The ARTery
Sean Burns View full list
  • Bacurau
  • Beanpole
  • City Hall
  • Collective
  • David Byrne's American Utopia
  • First Cow
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Lovers Rock
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Vitalina Varela
We Are Movie Geeks
Staff consensus View full list
  1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  2. News of the World
  3. Possessor Uncut
  4. The Painter and the Thief
  5. Promising Young Woman
  6. Nomadland
  7. On the Rocks
  8. Wolfwalkers
  9. Mank
  10. The Outpost
The Week
Jeva Lange View full list
  1. The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs
  2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  3. Da 5 Bloods
  4. The Nest
  5. Let Them All Talk
  6. Another Round
  7. The Disciple
WhatCulture
Jack Pooley View full list
  1. Mangrove
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. Nomadland
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. Mank
  6. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  7. Saint Maud
  8. The Devil All the Time
  9. Relic
  10. Wolfwalkers
White City Cinema
Michael Glover Smith View full list
  1. Time
  2. The Woman Who Ran
  3. City So Real
  4. Tommaso
  5. Bacurau
  6. Days
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  8. City Hall
  9. Zombi Child
  10. To the Ends of the Earth
Wonderland
Staff consensus View full list
  • The Devil All the Time
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • The Lighthouse
  • Mangrove
  • Parasite
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Rocks
  • Tenet
World of Reel
Jordan Ruimy View full list
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  2. Lovers Rock
  3. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  4. Da 5 Bloods
  5. First Cow
  6. The Invisible Man
  7. Bad Education
  8. Young Ahmed
  9. Sound of Metal
  10. The Assistant
The Wrap
Alonso Duralde View full list
  1. Collective
  2. Driveways
  3. First Cow
  4. City Hall
  5. Crip Camp
  6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  7. New Order
  8. Bacurau
  9. I'm Your Woman
  10. On the Rocks
The Young Folks
Staff consensus View full list
  1. Da 5 Bloods
  2. Sound of Metal
  3. Minari
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  5. Emma
  6. Palm Springs
  7. Birds of Prey
  8. Nomadland
  9. The Invisible Man
  10. Bacurau

 

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Comments (1)

  • Trainspotting  
    • Dec 3, 2020 11:54AM

    The comment below is not just because we live in the age of covid but applies to previous years or metacritic year end list of movies. I have always found your lists interesting because I usually find a lot of gems out there that I have either not seen or not heard of.

    May I make a suggestion that you create 2 lists in the future

    1. Would be the list as seen above

    2. The second would be a list of movies seen by more than a few thousand people at art house theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto (yes Europe I know you exist just trying to make a point). I definitely would be interested to see a list that would include films seen by a wider audience.

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