We reach the 2020 halfway point in the midst of a pandemic. It is a strange thing to even contemplate calculating the highest-rated narrative films for the year so far, but it also feels important to take stock and keep celebrating achievements in film, no matter what.

So, congratulations to writer-directors one film, based around a horrifying piece of Chilean history, is made in 2D and 3D stop-motion. On the documentary front, Disclosure is the highest-rated non-fiction feature at the year’s halfway point.

A note on eligibility: 2020 is a transition year for our annual highest-rated lists—we’re changing our own rules regarding inclusion. Up until now, we’ve required films to have had US releases within the calendar year in order to be included, but as our global community grows, there’s increasingly a case to be made to include films that have had wide releases in their home countries and territories as well.

Changing our approach means that some significant films released in the US this year (but in their home countries in 2019 or earlier, like Bacurau) would miss out, so we’ve decided to include them this year as we transition to the new approach. So for this year, to be included, films had to be narrative, feature-length, and have had at least a limited theatrical (or streaming) run in any country between January 1 and June 30 or a US release in 2020, where they had already opened in another territory in 2019 or earlier.