Critical Rankings: Top 20 Movies of 2020

We have thumbed through as many “Best Movies of 2020” lists as we could find and have devised a formula to award points based on which ranking movies were featured at on each critical list to figure up what was the critics’ choice for the top 20 movies of 2020.

Point System:
Rank (Points)
1. (10)
2. (9)
3. (8)
4. (7)
5. (6)
6. (5)
7. (4)
8. (3)
9. (2)
10. (1) 

1. "Nomadland" - 230 points 

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2. "First Cow" - 226 points 

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3. "Lovers Rock" – 164 points

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​4. "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" – 150 points

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​5. "David Byrne’s American Utopia" – 120 points

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6. "Da 5 Bloods" – 113 points

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7. "Minari" – 101 points 

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8. "Collective" – 88 points 

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9. (tie) "Bacurau" & Promising Young Woman – 71 points  

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11. "Mank" – 64 points 

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12. "Time" – 63 points 

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13. (tie) "I’m Thinking of Ending Things" & "Sound of Metal" - 62 points  

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15. "Soul" - 58 points 

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16. "The Trial of the Chicago 7" - 53 points 

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17. "The Nest" – 52 points

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18. "Dick Johnson is Dead" - 51 points 

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19. (tie) "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets" & "Martin Eden" - 49 points 

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Sources:
Peter Debruge (Variety), Owen Gleiberman (Variety), Leah Greenblatt (EW), Matthew Jacobs (HuffPost), Eric Kohn (Indiewire), Angie Han (Mashable), Manohla Dargis (NY Times), A.O. Scott (NY Times), Richard Brody (New Yorker), Samuel R. Murrian (Parade), The Playlist, Stephanie Zacharek (TIME), Angelica Jade Bastien (Vulture), Bilge Ebiri (Vulture), Alison Whitmore (Vulture), Bill Goodykoontz (Arizona Republic), David Sims (The Atlantic), Jake Coyle (Associated Press), Lindsey Bahr (Associated Press), Barry Hertz (The Globe and the Mail), Tom Gliatto (People), David Fear (Rolling Stone), Chris Barsanti (Slant), Chuck Bowen (Slant), Pat Brown (Slant), Jake Cole (Slant), Ben Flanagan (Slant), Ed Gonzalez (Slant), Richard Lawson (Vanity Fair), Ann Hornaday (The Washington Post), Gregory Ellwood (Awards Campaign), Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Alan Zilberman (Brightest Young Things), Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune), Jon Frosh (The Hollywood Reporter), Sheri Linden (The Hollywood Reporter), David Rooney (The Hollywood Reporter), Johnny Oleksinski (NY Post), Sara Stewart (NY Post), Sean Fennessey & Adam Nayman (The Ringer), Glenn Kenny (RogerEbert.com), Christy Lemire (RogerEbert.com), Brian Tallerico (RogerEbert.com), Matt Zoller Seitz (RogerEbert.com), Matt Singer (Screen Crush), Alyssa Wilkinson (Vox), Ty Burr (Boston Globe), Candice Frederick (Harper’s Bazaar), Brian Truitt (USA Today), Philip Martin (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times), Jack Pooley (WhatCulture), Vinnie Mancuso (Collider), Dan Jackson (Thrillist), Philip Price (Reviews From a Bed/The Word)