The 20 Best Movies of 2020 So Far
Which films have impressed critics the most during the first half of the year? Above, we rank the best-reviewed movies released in theaters* or on digital/VOD/streaming outlets between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2020. Films are ranked by Metascore and must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible.
* Commonly found in urban locations during the Before Times, a theater was an enclosed public space where strangers came together to watch films projected on a screen.
Twenty-eight-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov's second feature is set in post-World War II Leningrad, where two young women, Iya and Masha (impressive newcomers Viktoria Mironshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), struggle to rebuild their lives while dealing with the physical and psychological scars of war. It’s a harrowing film, but one crafted so well that Balagov won Best Director in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and the film made the Oscar’s international feature film shortlist.
“The film is an improbably thrilling work of art by virtue of its physical beauty and its relentless intensity of feeling about people — not only Iya and Masha — who would prefer in their heart of shattered hearts to feel nothing.” —Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
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