Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Justin Chang (Los Angeles Times):

Top-10:
1. Vitalina Varela
2. Time
3. Nomadland
4. First Fow
5. Martin Eden
6. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
7. City Hall
8. Collective
9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
10. Beanpole

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания Slant Magazine:

Top-10:
1. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill and Turner Ross)
2. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
3. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
4. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
5. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
6. To the Ends of the Earth (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
7. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
8. Time (Garrett Bradley)
9. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
10. The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán)

11-20:
11. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
12. American Utopia (Spike Lee)
13. Space Dogs (Elsa Kremer and Levin Peter)
14. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
15. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)
16. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
17. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
18. Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
19. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
20. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)

21-30:
21. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
22. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
23. Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach)
24. Welcome to Chechnya (David France)
25. The Wolf House (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña)
26. Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
27. The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin)
28. This Is Not a Movie (Yung Chang)
29. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
30. Liberté (Albert Serra)

31-40:
31. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
32. Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg)
33. The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)
34. The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree)
35. Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
36. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
37. Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
38. Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa)
39. Shirley (Josephine Decker)
40. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)

41-50:
41. Pahokee (Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas)
42. The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)
43. The Assistant (Kitty Green)
44. I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
45. The 40-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank)
46. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
47. Boys State (Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss)
48. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
49. She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz)
50. On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания NME:

Top-20:
1. Da 5 Bloods (Director: Spike Lee)
2. Parasite (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
3. Uncut Gems (Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
4. David Byrne’s American Utopia (Director: Spike Lee)
5. Tenet (Director: Christopher Nolan)
6. Hamilton (Director: Thomas Kail)
7. Rocks (Director: Sarah Gavron)
8. Host (Director: Rob Savage)
9. Birds Of Prey (Director: Cathy Yan)
10. Saint Maud (Director: Rose Glass)
11. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (Director: Céline Sciamma)
12. The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (Director: Aaron Sorkin)
13. Queen & Slim (Director: Melina Matsoukas)
14. On The Rocks (Director: Sofia Coppola)
15. Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace (Director: Nick Cave)
16. Babyteeth (Director: Shannon Murphy)
17. The Invisible Man (Director: Leigh Whannell)
18. The Vast Of Night (Director: Andrew Patterson)
19. Beastie Boys Story (Director: Spike Jonze)
20. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Director: Jason Woliner)

2020 год не щадит никого. Теперь он добрался и до легендарного режиссера-самодела Ким Ки Дука. Опальный кореец по сути изобрел свой жанр, который можно было бы назвать "кино Ким Ки Дука" и все сразу понимали, как оно выглядит. В нулевых Ким, наверное, был главным любимцем российской артхаусной публики и до последнего был очень уважаем у нас. Да, он повторялся из ленты в ленту (до того, как это стало мейнстримом у Хона) и не мог предложить ничего нового. Еще жестче, экстремальней, выпендрежней. Но при этом он остался верен себе и снимал только то, что хотел снимать. И "Золотого Льва" у него уже никто не отберет, пускай он получил его за одну из своих худших работ. Жаль, что так рано ушел. Покойся с миром, Ким.

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания Sight & Sound:

Top-10:
1. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, UK)
2. Time (Garrett Bradley, US)
3. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, US)
4. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, US)
5. Saint Maud (Rose Glass, UK)
6. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson, US)
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, US)
8. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, US)
9. Rocks (Sarah Gavron, UK)
10. Days (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

11-20:
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross, US)
12. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, US)
13. Mangrove (Steve McQueen, UK)
14. The Assistant (Kitty Green, US)
15. Shirley (Josephine Decker, US)
16. David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee, US)
17. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
18. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)
19. WolfWalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, Ireland/France/Luxembourg)
20. Kajillionaire (Miranda July, US)

21-30:
21. The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco, Spain/Switzerland)
22. Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg, Canada/UK)
23. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili, US)
24. Undine (Christian Petzold, Germany/France)
25. Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy, Australia)
26. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
27. His House (Remi Weekes, UK)
28. Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, France)
29. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, US)
30. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, Italy)

31-40:
31. Ema (Pablo Larraín, Chile)
32. Host (Rob Savage, UK)
33. Limbo (Ben Sharrock, UK)
34. Mank (David Fincher, US)
35. Mogul Mowgli (Bassam Tariq, UK)
36. Relic (Natalie Erika James, Australia)
37. She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz, US)
38. Tenet (Christopher Nolan, US)
39. The Forty-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank, US)
40. The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci, UK)

41-50:
41. About Endlessness (Roy Andersson, Sweden)
42. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
43. Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan, US)
44. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, US)
45. Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu, US)
46. Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
47. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, US)
48. The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, US)
49. The Truth (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
50. The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson, US)