Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания Ars Technica:

Top-15:
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

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Brian Truitt (USA Today):

Top-10:
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

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания Total Film:

Top-25:
25. Shirley
24. Song Without A Name
23. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
22. Bombshell
21. 1917
20. The Vast Of Night
19. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
18. Rocks
17. Possessor
16. Relic
15. Wolfwalkers
14. Wonder Woman 1984
13. I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
12. Host
11. Calm With Horses
10. The Assistant
09. Saint Maud
08. The Invisible Man
07. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
06. The Lighthouse
05. Soul
04. Mank
03. Uncut Gems
02. Parasite
01. Tenet

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Robbie Collin (The Telegraph):

Top-10:
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

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Sean Collier (Pittsburgh Magazine):

Top-10:
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

Лучшие режиссерские дебюты 2020 года по версии The Film Stage:

Top:
The 40-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank)
Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy)
The Climb (Michael Angelo Covino)
The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
His House (Remi Weekes)
House of Hummingbird (Bora Kim)
One Night in Miami (Regina King)
Miss Juneteenth (Channing Godfrey Peoples)
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow)
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
The Sharks (Lucía Garibaldi)
Shithouse (Cooper Raiff)
Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin)
The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)
The Wolf House (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña)
Honorable Mentions: Emma., The Father, Farewell Amor, Judy & Punch, Residue, Saint Frances, The Surrogate, Survival Skills

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии K. Austin Collins (Rolling Stone):

Top-10:
1. 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' and 'Time' (tie)
2. 'Vitalina Varela'
3. 'Fire Will Come'
4. 'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets'
5. 'Red, White and Blue'
6. 'City Hall'
7. 'Lovers Rock'
8. 'Fourteen'
9. 'First Cow'
10. 'Residue'

11-20:
11. 'Tesla'
12. 'Bacurau'
13. 'Dick Johnson Is Dead'
14. 'Vast of Night'
15. 'She Dies Tomorrow' and 'I Was At Home, But…'(tie)
16. 'Ham on Rye'
17. 'The Assistant'
18. 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' and 'The Forty-Year-Old Version' (tie)
19. 'Kajillionaire'
20. 'Mank'
Plus, a few more “honorable mentions”: Capone (Josh Trank); Collective (Alexander Nanau); Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee); Gunda (Viktor Kossakovsky); His House (Remi Weekes); La LLorona (Jayro Bustamante); Minari (Lee Isaac Chung); Nomadland (Chloé Zhao); Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg); The Wolf House (Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León).