🔢 Every movie I saw in 2020, ranked: The final list

Hey everyone — hope you all are taking some time off and watching lots of movies this holiday season. I’m banking a lot of reviews for the first official newsletter of the year, next week, but one more time for posterity: Here is my final ranking of the movies I watched in 2020, including the ones I haven’t reviewed yet.

(As you might be able to tell, I’ve been making some serious progress with my MCU rewatch.)

I’ve split this into two lists: One for the new movies that came out this year, like I used to do, and one for everything (including the 2020 movies).

TL;DR: Please watch Soul. It’s on Disney+.

As always, links below are to the newsletters where the review originally ran. Bolded titles are among the ones that will be in next week’s edition.

1️⃣ Every (New) Movie I Saw in 2020, Ranked

1. Soul
2. Dick Johnson Is Dead
3. Boys State
4. Hamilton
5. The Old Guard
6. Little Women
7. Marriage Story
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
9. Palm Springs
10. First Cow
11. 1917
12. Uncut Gems
13. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
14. Bad Education
15. Just Mercy
16. Da 5 Bloods
17. Emma.
18. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
19. Live From the Space Stage: A Halyx Story
20. Onward
21. Greyhound
22. Joker
23. The Gentlemen

2️⃣ Every Movie I Saw in 2020, Ranked

1. The Godfather
2. 12 Angry Men
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Get Out
5. Do the Right Thing
6. Knives Out
7. Parasite
8. Arrival
9. My Neighbor Totoro
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. Airplane!
12. The Silence of the Lambs
13. Soul
14. Dick Johnson Is Dead
15. The Lives of Others
16. Hot Fuzz
17. Boys State
18. Hamilton
19. Groundhog Day
20. All About Eve
21. Ocean’s Eleven
22. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
23. West Side Story
24. The Avengers
25. The Farewell
26. Vertigo
27. 12 Years a Slave
28. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
29. What We Do in the Shadows
30. Spotlight
31. Booksmart
32. Her
33. Moana
34. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
35. The Matrix
36. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
37. Moonrise Kingdom
38. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
39. Your Name.
40. North by Northwest
41. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
42. The Incredibles
43. Lost in Translation
44. The Nightmare Before Christmas
45. Looper
46. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
47. The Wrong Trousers
48. The Old Guard
49. American Psycho
50. Thank You For Smoking
51. Little Women
52. Marriage Story
53. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
54. La La Land
55. Sunset Boulevard
56. Ford v Ferrari
57. A Fish Called Wanda
58. Bringing Up Baby
59. Gremlins
60. Apocalypse Now
61. The Hidden Fortress
62. Captain America: Civil War
63. Hell or High Water
64. Moneyball
65. Hacksaw Ridge
66. I, Tonya
67. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
68. The Lunchbox
69. Heat
70. Little Miss Sunshine
71. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
72. First Blood
73. Coming to America
74. Hustlers
75. Shrek
76. Wet Hot American Summer
77. The Muppet Christmas Carol
78. It Follows
79. Dolemite Is My Name
80. Good Will Hunting
81. Palm Springs
82. The Grapes of Wrath
83. Fantasia 2000
84. First Cow
85. Kedi
86. Honey Boy
87. A Muppet Family Christmas
88. The Great Escape
89. Ed Wood
90. Isle of Dogs
91. Annihilation
92. The Hunt for Red October
93. Wordplay
94. Boyhood
95. It Happened One Night
96. Spider-Man: Homecoming
97. The Hunger Games
98. 1917
99. Animals Are Beautiful People
100. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
101. The French Connection
102. The Philadelphia Story
103. Dark Waters
104. Elf
105. Hail, Caesar!
106. The Death of Stalin
107. The Irishman
108. Zoolander
109. 50/50
110. Paddington
111. Hannah and Her Sisters
112. Horse Feathers
113. Enemy of the State
114. Captain Phillips
115. Uncut Gems
116. Independence Day
117. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
118. Doctor Strange
119. 9 to 5
120. Frost/Nixon
121. The Incredibles 2
122. How the West Was Won
123. Almost Famous
124. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
125. Broadway Melody of 1940
126. Bad Education
127. Godzilla
128. Just Mercy
129. Kahaani
130. Iron Man 3
131. Midnight in Paris
132. Da 5 Bloods
133. High Fidelity
134. Guardians of the Galaxy
135. My Fair Lady
136. Iron Man
137. The Invisible Man
138. Iron Man 2
139. The Hateful Eight
140. Happy Gilmore
141. Gates of Heaven
142. Emma.
143. Men in Black
144. Thor
145. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
146. Home Alone
147. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
148. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
149. Braveheart
150. Bicycle Thieves
151. Captain America: The First Avenger
152. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
153. Bottle Rocket
154. The Addams Family
155. Frankenstein
156. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
157. Hugo
158. All the Money in the World
159. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
160. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
161. Live From the Space Stage: A Halyx Story
162. John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
163. Onward
164. Hidden Figures
165. Pain and Glory
166. Bambi
167. The Great Dictator
168. Avengers: Age of Ultron
169. Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events
170. Anastasia
171. Easy Rider
172. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
173. Hot Rod
174. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
175. Animal House
176. Ant-Man
177. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
178. You’ve Got Mail
179. The 39 Steps
180. Thor: The Dark World
181. The Princess and the Frog
182. Elysium
183. (500) Days of Summer
184. Gosford Park
185. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
186. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
187. Modern Romance
188. The Incredible Hulk
189. H.M.S. Pinafore
190. Shakespeare in Love
191. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
192. 3:10 to Yuma
193. The Big Country
194. Ghost
195. 28 Weeks Later
196. History of the World: Part I
197. The African Queen
198. Greyhound
199. Bamboozled
200. Bullitt
201. Dracula
202. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
203. Bride of Frankenstein
204. Howard the Duck
205. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
206. The Descendants
207. The Hangover
208. Joker
209. Kingpin
210. 28 Days Later
211. Bridesmaids
212. The Great Gatsby
213. 13 Assassins
214. Creature From the Black Lagoon
215. Benny & Joon
216. Bad Moms
217. High Anxiety
218. Kentucky Fried Movie
219. Hang ’Em High
220. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
221. Ice Age
222. Romancing the Stone
223. Crocodile Dundee
224. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
225. Hard Ticket to Hawaii
226. Gods of Egypt
227. The Gentlemen
228. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
229. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
230. The Last Airbender
231. Manos: The Hands of Fate