Best of 2020: Our Individual Top Ten Lists

From First Cow to Wolfwalkers, let’s take a look at our writers’ Individual Top Ten Lists of favourite films of 2020.

As we work to bring you a definitive list of Loud and Clear’s best films of 2020, we decided to share our writers’ individual top ten lists, in alphabetical order, to celebrate this year’s impressive releases. Even though some lists will be shorter then others, as not all of our critics have seen a great deal of films this year, you’ll still find 58 wonderfully diverse, excellent quality titles to add to your watchlist.

Please note that our individual top ten lists only include movies that have had their first release somewhere in the world in the year 2020, not counting film festival debuts.

ANTHONY BOWMER

1. Dick Johnson is Dead
2. First Cow
3. Da 5 Bloods
4. Shirley
5. Mangrove
6. The History of the Seattle Mariners
7. Bad Hair
8. Disclosure
9. His House

BERNARD OZAROWSKI

1. Mangrove
2. The Father
3. The Assistant
4. Minari
5. Mank
6. Soul
7. The Way Back
8. Emma.
9. Palm Springs
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

CAMERON FAIRCHILD

1. The Grand Bizarre
2. Da 5 Bloods
3. Vitalina Varela
4. The Assistant
5. First Cow
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7. The History of the Seattle Mariners

CLAIRE FULTON

1. His House
2. Mulan
3. The Invisible Man

ETHAN HILL

1. First Cow
2. Boys State
3. Mank
4. David Byrne’s American Utopia
5. The Vast of Night
6. The Trial of the Chicago 7
7. Time
8. Song Without a Name
9. Wolfwalkers
10. On The Rocks

HARRY SOLOMONS

1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
2. Ronnie’s
3. The Boys in the Band
4. Mank
5. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
6. Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
7. The Forty-Year-Old Version

JAKE BURBAGE

1. Minari
2. Sound of Metal
3. Wolfwalkers
4. First Cow
5. World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
6. Shithouse
7. Nomadland
8. Bad Education
9. A Sun
10. Palm Springs

JOSHUA ARISPE

1. Minari
2. The Father
3. Nomadland
4. First Cow
5. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
6. Mank
7. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
8. Sound of Metal
9. I’m No Longer Here
10. One Night in Miami…

KAI COULSTOCK

1. Babyteeth
2. Wendy
3. Birds of Prey
4. Proxima

MICHAEL CARVELLI

1. First Cow
2. Lovers Rock
3. Nomadland
4. The Trial of the Chicago 7
5. Minari
6. Mank
7. Palm Springs
8. Boys State
9. Sound of Metal
10. Dick Johnson is Dead

SERENA SEGHEDONI

1. Wolfwalkers
2. Sound of Metal
3. The Assistant
4. Eurovison Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
5. The Town of the Headcounts
6. Bad Education
7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
8. On The Rocks
9. Saint Frances
10. Palm Springs

See Also

Best Movies of 2022: Our Individual Top 10 Lists

ZOE ROSE BRYANT

1. Promising Young Woman
2. Nomadland
3. The Assistant
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
5. Shithouse
6. The Father
7. Boys State
8. Happiest Season
9. Mank
10. The Trial of the Chicago 7

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