Best 2020 movies

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August 29, 2025
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Best 2020 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2020 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.
1 / 20
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#20. Promising Young Woman

- Stacker score: 83.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 229,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Emerald Fennell
- Actors: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $6,460,965
2 / 20
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#19. Shiva Baby

- Stacker score: 84.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 40,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Emma Seligman
- Actors: Rachel Sennott, Danny Deferrari, Fred Melamed
- Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $204,435
3 / 20
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#18. The Trial of the Chicago 7

- Stacker score: 86.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 202,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Aaron Sorkin
- Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A
4 / 20
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#17. One Night in Miami...

- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 35,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Regina King
- Actors: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A
5 / 20
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#16. The Social Dilemma

- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 93,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang
- Actors: Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: N/A
6 / 20
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#15. Dinner in America

- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Adam Rehmeier
- Actors: Kyle Gallner, Yancey Fuqua, Jennifer Kincer
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: 80Metascore
- Box office: N/A
7 / 20
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#14. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

- Stacker score: 88.1
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 60,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: George C. Wolfe
- Actors: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A
8 / 20
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#13. Another Round

- Stacker score: 88.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 217,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Thomas Vinterberg
- Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A
9 / 20
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#12. Palm Springs

- Stacker score: 88.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 204,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Max Barbakow
- Actors: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons
- Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $164,000
10 / 20
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#11. The Dissident

- Stacker score: 89.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Bryan Fogel
- Actors: Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, Irfan Fidan
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $57,000
11 / 20
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#10. Nomadland

- Stacker score: 90.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 195,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Chloé Zhao
- Actors: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,700,000
12 / 20
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#9. Athlete A

- Stacker score: 91.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
- Actors: Maggie Nichols, Gina Nichols, John Nichols
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: N/A
13 / 20
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#8. My Octopus Teacher

- Stacker score: 92.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 69,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
- Actors: Craig Foster, Tom Foster
- Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Rating: TV-G
- Box office: N/A
14 / 20
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#7. Minari

- Stacker score: 92.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 105,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Lee Isaac Chung
- Actors: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $3,110,580
15 / 20
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#6. Soul

- Stacker score: 92.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 415,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
- Actors: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $946,154
16 / 20
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#5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

- Stacker score: 93.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Eliza Hittman
- Actors: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $16,565
17 / 20
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#4. Wolfwalkers

- Stacker score: 94.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 43,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
- Actors: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A
18 / 20
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#3. The Father

- Stacker score: 96.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 218,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Florian Zeller
- Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $2,122,771
19 / 20
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#2. Hamilton

- Stacker score: 96.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 131,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Thomas Kail
- Actors: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr.
- Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: N/A
20 / 20
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#1. Quo Vadis, Aida?

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 41,000)
- Metascore: 97
- Director: Jasmila Zbanic
- Actors: Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
- Box office: N/A

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