i didn't see this thread pop up in time to vote but here's some last year listmaking.
Great 2020 Movies:
Feb – Uncut Gems (2019, Safdie Brothers )
Feb – Desert One (2020, Kopple)
Feb – The Whistlers (2020, Porumboiu)
Apr – The Truth (2020, Kore-eda )
Apr – Bacurau (2020 – Filho and Dorneles )
Apr – Bad Education (2020, Finley)
May – South Mountain (2020, Brougher )
May – América (0202, Stoll and Whiteside)
May – The Painter and The Thief (2020, Ree )
June – 8:46 – Dave Chapelle (2020)
June – Be Water (2020, Nguyen)
July – Jasper Mall (2020, Thomason and Whitcomb )
July – The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020, Iannucci)
Aug – Martha: A Picture Story (2020, Miles )
November – The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020, Blank)
November – Deux (2020, Meneghetti )
Dec – Nate (2020, Burgers)
Dec – The Nest (2020, Durkin)
Dec – Soul (2020, Docter )
Dec – In and Of Itself (2020, Oz)
Great (non-2020):
Jan - Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki – Rewatch)
Jan –The Wind Rises (2013, Miyazaki – Rewatch)
Jan – Honeyland (2018, Kotevska and Stefanov - Rewatch)
Mar – Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Zemeckis – Rewatch)
Apr – Force Majeure (2014, Ostlund)
May – Safety Last (1923, Newmeyer and Taylor )
Jun – Monkey Business (1952, Hawks … problematic but great)
Jun – The Jerk (1974, Reiner )
July – The Tiger of Eschnapur (1960, Lang … racist as fuck unfortunately)
July – Short Films of Charley Bowers (1927 to 1935 )
July – Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977, Mariposa Film Group )
Aug – The Legend of Drunken Master (1994, Chia-Liang )
Oct – Il Capo (Ancarani, 2010)
Oct – Motown: 25 (1983)
Dec – Baldwin’s Nigger (Ové, 1968)
Dec – Syvato (Kossakovsky, 2005)
Consistently Pretty Good to Very Very Good:
Jan – What Did Jack Do? (2020, David Lynch)
Feb – Koko Di Koko Da (2020, Nyholm)
Mar – Human Nature (2019, Bolt )
Mar – Saint Francis (2019, Thompson )
Mar – Bellbird (2019, Bennett )
Mar – Crip Camp (2020, Lebrecht and Newnham – )
Apr – Platform (2019 - Gaztellu-Urrutia – )
May – Sorry We Missed You (2020, Loach )
May - Driveways (2019, Ahn )
May – Fourteen (2020, Sallitt )
June – You Don’t Nomi (2020, McHale )
June – Yourself and Yours (2020, Hong Sang-Soo )
June – El Campeón de Mundo (2020, Madiero and Borgia )
June – Who You Think I Am (2020, Sebbou )
June – Red Dog (2020, Pinkston and Dick )
July – Miss Juneteenth (2020, Peoples )
July – Pahokie (2020, Lucas and Bresnan )
July – Pipe Dreams (2020, Tenenbaum)
July – Palm Springs (2020, Barbakow)
July – The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2020, Medak )
July – Air Conditioner (2020, Fradique )
July – John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020, Porter )
August – All I Can Say (2020, Hoon )
August – Cunningham (2020, Kovgan )
August – Lucky Grandma (2020, Sealy )
September – Watermelon Juice [short] (2020, Moray )
October – Shithouse (2020, Raiff )
October – Mandibles (2020, Dupeiux )
October – Love and Monsters (2020, Matthews )
November – Lynch: A History (2020, Shields )
November – The Mole Agent (2020, Alberdi )
December – Build the Wall (2020, Swanberg )
December – Possessor (2020, Cronenberg )
December – Druk (2020, Vinterberg )
Consistently Pretty Good to Very Very Good (non-2020):
Jan –Jay Himself (2019, Wilkes)
Jan – Muxes (2016, Olita - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlzhXBjmaUw )
Jan – Midnight Family (2019, Lorentzen)
Jan – Porco Rosso (1992, Miyazaki)
Feb – Knives Out (2019, Johnson )
Mar – Metropolis with Metropolitan Ensemble Livescore(Lang)
Mar – The Barkley Marathons (2014, Kane and Iltis)
Mar – American Factory (2019, Reichart)
Mar – Project Grizzly (1996, Lynch )
Apr – Drawn from Memory (1995, Fierlinger)
Apr – The Hottest August (2019, Story )
Apr – The Mighty Atom (2017, Greenstein)
Apr – Boy (2012, Waititi )
May – Nina Conti: Talk to the Hand (2013, Hare )
May – Nina Conti: Make Me Happy (2012, Eastall – Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/49714692)
May – Moon (2009, Jones )
May – A Kid from Coney Island (2019, Ozah )
June – Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012, Higuchi and Ghibli )
June – 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s (1979, Weis )
June – Where’s My Roy Cohn? (2019, Tyrnauer )
June – Aya of Yop City (2013, Abouet and Oubrerie )
June – Jump Shot (2019, Hamilton )
July – Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009, Karpovsky )
August – Too Funny To Fail: The Life and Death of the Dana Carvey Show (2017, Greenbaum)
August – Korla (2015, Turner and Christensen )
September – Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007, Niles )
October – Long Gone Summer (2020, Schnack)
Almost Okay to Occasionally Pretty Good:
Jan - Color Out of Space (2020, Stanley)
Feb – Slay the Dragon (2020, Goodman and Durrance)
Mar – Fantastic Fungi (2019, Schwartzberg )
Apr – Bad Trip (2020, Sakurai )
Apr – Bit (2019, Elmore )
May – Spaceship Earth (2020, Wolf)
May – Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020, Parry)
May – Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything (2020, Raboy)
June – Sometimes Always Never (2020, Hunter )
June – Ringside (2020, Hörmann)
June – Eating up Easter (2020, Mata’u Rapu )
June – Booksellers (2020, Young )
July - Inmate 1: The Rise of Danny Trejo (2020, Harvey )
July – Old Guard (2020, Prince-Bythewood)
Aug – She Dies Tomorrow (2020, Seimetz )
Aug – Tu Me Manques (2020, Bellott )
Aug – Tiny Tim: King for a Day (2020, von Sydow)
Aug – Class Action Park (2020, Porges and Scott III)
September – Biography: I Want My MTV (2020, Waldrop and Meason )
September – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020, Ross, Ross IV )
September - #Alive (2020, Il Cho)
September – All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020, Cores and Garbus)
September – The Fandom (2020, Kries )
October – Save Yourselves (2020, Wilson and Fischer )
Almost Okay to Occasionally Pretty Good (non-2020):
Jan – John Berger and the Art of Looking (2016, Dvorak)
Feb – Who Let the Dogs Out (2019, Hodge )
Mar – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019, Wolf)
Mar – Last Breath (2019, Da Costa and Parkinson )
Apr – Tread (2019, Solet )
Apr – Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul (2017, Bochniak )
Apr – The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (2018, Reid )
Apr – Dolemite is My Name (2019, Brewer)
Apr – Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013, Lowney )
May – How I Came to Hate Maths (2012, Peyon )
July – The Indian Tomb (1960, Lang )
August – Fist of Fury (1972, Wei )
September – Salvage (2019, Elliott )
September – The Donut King (2020, Gu )
October – First Cow (2020, Reichardt )
Deeply Flawed to Barely Watchable:
Mar – War on Everyone (2016, McDonagh )
Apr – It Started as a Joke: Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival (Clem and Druckerman, 2019 )
Apr – Circus of Books (2019, Mason)
May – Greed (2020, Winterbottom )
May – The Land of Steady Habits (2018, Holofcener)
May – Hellraiser (1987, Barker )
May – Genius Party (2007, Multiple Directors)
May – Buzzard (2014, Potrykus )
May – DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020, Lukic)
May – Hala (2019, Baig )
May – Villain (2020, Barantini )
Aug – Boys State (2020, Moss and McBaine )
Aug – Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy Story (2020, Cicero and Easterwood)
Aug – Pretending I’m Superman: The Tony Hawk Game Story (2020, Gür )
Aug – Feels Good Man (2020, Jones )
Aug – Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020, Parisot )
Dec – The Santa Trap (1909, Griffith )
No:
Jan – Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019, Jansons )
Jan – Chained for Life (2018, Schimberg )
Feb - Judy (2019, Goold , great lead acting role though)
Feb –Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts: Life Overtakes Me, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (2019, various directors – basically broccoli)
Feb – Guest of Honor (2020, Egoyan)
Mar – Onward – (2020, Scanlon )
Apr – Wetlands (2013, Wnendt )
Apr – Buffaloed (2019, Wexler )
Apr – Limelight (2011, Corben )
May – Raising Buchanan (2019, Dellis )
May – How to Build a Girl (2020, Giedroyc )
May – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Hittman )
May – The Last Right (2019, Crehan )
May – Your Name (2016, Shinkai )
June – Miwa: Looking for Black Lizard (2010, Vincent )
June – Days of the Bagnold Summer (2020, Bird )
July – The Translators (2019, Roinsard )
July – Vanilla (2019, Dennis )
August – The Disappearance of My Mother (2019, Barrese )
September – My Octopus Teacher (2020, Ehrlich and Reed )
September – I’ve Got Issues (2020, Collins )
October – 12 Hour Shift (2020, Grant )
October – What the Constitution Means to Me (2020, Heller)
November – Tank Girl (1995, Talalay)
November – The Pollinators (2020, Nelson)
November – Freaky (2020, Landon)
November – Tenet (2020, Nolan)
December – The Last Blockbuster (2020)
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