My Favorite Movies of 2020 (So Far):
BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (The Ross Brothers)
DRIVEWAYS (Andrew Ahn)
FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG (Justin Kurzel)
SOUND OF METAL (Darius Marder)
SMALL AXE: LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)
A SUN (Chung Mong-Hong)
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Charlie Kaufman)
TOMMASO (Abel Ferrara)
TIME (Garrett Bradley)
SHE DIES TOMORROW (Amy Seimetz)
LINGUA FRANCA (Isabel Sandoval)
BABYTEETH (Shannon Murphy)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Eliza Hittman)
THE HALF OF IT (Alice Wu)
I’M NO LONGER HERE (Fernando Frias)
DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee)
THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION (Radha Blank)
COLOR OUT OF SPACE (Richard Stanley)
LET THEM ALL TALK (Steven Soderbergh)
CAPONE (Josh Trank)
RESIDUE (Merawi Gerima)
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson)
CUT THROAT CITY (RZA)
TESLA (Michael Almereyda)
WENDY (Benh Zeitlin)
I’M YOUR WOMAN (Julia Hart)
THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW (Jim Cummings)
THE WAY BACK (Gavin O’Connor)
YES, GOD, YES (Karen Maine)
SHIRLEY (Josephine Decker)

Shorts:
WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch)
JOHN WAS TRYING TO CONTACT ALIENS (Matthew Killip)

Other movies I liked: THE INVISIBLE MAN; CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN; THE JESUS ROLLS; HUBIE HALLOWEEN; ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO; PALM SPRINGS; UNCLE FRANK; RUN; EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA; THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART; MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY; ARCHENEMY; MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM; BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIE FILM; SMALL AXE: MANGROVE

Still need to see:
SIBERIA; THE WOMAN WHO RAN; NOMADLAND; SAINT MAUD; CITY HALL; WOLFWALKERS; THE NEST; MARTIN EDEN; VITALINA VARELA; BACURAU; BEANPOLE; SYLVIE’S LOVE; SORRY WE MISSED YOU; ON THE ROCKS; KAJILLIONAIRE; BLACK BEAR; MINARI; JUMBO; POSSESSOR; VIVARIUM; LET HIM GO; THE ASSISTANT; PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN; THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF; the rest of SMALL AXE; lots more I’m forgetting

Favorite performances:
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Hong Chau and Brian Dennehy, DRIVEWAYS
Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
Jessie Buckley, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
Michael Martin, BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS
Isabel Sandoval, LINGUA FRANCA
Amarah-Jae St Aubyn, LOVERS ROCK
Eliza Scanlen, BABYTEETH
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Russell Crowe and Essie Davis, TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG
Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIE FILM
John Magaro, FIRST COW
Candice Bergen, LET THEM ALL TALK
Radha Blank, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Willem Dafoe, TOMMASO
Kate Lyn Sheil, SHE DIES TOMORROW
Natalia Dyer, YES, GOD, YES
Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Ethan Hawke, TESLA
Cristin Milioti, PALM SPRINGS
Peter Macdissi, UNCLE FRANK
Ben Affleck, THE WAY BACK
Rachel McAdams, EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA
Elisabeth Moss, SHIRLEY and THE INVISIBLE MAN