İşte Filmloverss'ın yayımladığı; IndieWire, The Guardian, The New Yorker gibi önde gelen yayınlarda yazan yüzden fazla eleştirmenin oylarıyla belirlenen filmlerin listesinin ilk 20'si şöyle:
1. Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
2. First Cow - Kelly Reichardt
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Eliza Hittman
4. Da 5 Bloods - Spike Lee
5. Minari - Lee Isaac Chung
6. I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Charlie Kaufman
7. Lovers Rock - Steve McQueen
8. The Invisible Man - Leigh Whannell
9. The Trial of the Chicago - Aaron Sorkin
10. Mank - David Fincher
11. Bacurau - Juliano Dornelles ve Kleber Mendonça Filho
12. David Byrne’s
American Utopia - Spike Lee
13. Palm Springs - Max Barbakow
14. Tenet - Christopher Nolan
15. Dick Johnson Is Dead - Kirsten Johnson
16. Bad Education - Cory Finley
17. Time - Garrett Bradley
18. The Assistant - Kitty Green
19. Vitalina Varela - Pedro Costa
20. Soul - Pete Docter
