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In this list you’ll find the best of the best – limited and wide theatrical releases, plus streaming titles. Céline Sciamma’s searing romance, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, which got a lot of love last award’s season but was technically released in February of 2020, tops the category, followed by One Night In Miami, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Soul, and The Invisible Man.
The True Adventures of Wolfboy78%. #220. Critics Consensus: The True Adventures of Wolfboy can be frustratingly uneven, but a worthy story and compassion for its characters help make this coming-of-age story's flaws easy to forgive. Synopsis: Paul lives an isolated life with his father in upstate New York.
- Best Movie of The Year 2020 Winner: Palm Springs
- IGN's People's Choice Best Movie of The Year: Tenet
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Birds of Prey
- Da 5 Bloods
- Emma.
- The Invisible Man
- One Night in Miami
- Tenet
- The Trial of The Chicago 7
Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, is a worthy and charming successor to the Groundhoug Day time-loop genre, and one that raises the stakes, deepens the existential wisdom, and enhances the overall idea. The film focuses on the trap/curse/phenomenon as a shared experience - one that can create both deep emotional connections a...
Tenet won IGN's People's Choice with 21.2% of the vote, following by Birds of Prey which had 12%! After a career spent exploring the concept of time, director Christopher Nolan finally tackles the subject head-on in Tenet; a film not just interested in timelines, but directly focused on them. It’s a classic Nolan film in almost every way - packed t...
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm may not contain all of the shock and awe of the original, since exposing racists has sadly sort of become commonplace, but it still contains an avalanche of awkward, anxiety-cranking moments that had us laughing while watching through our fingers like we would a horror movie. And Maria Bakalova, every bit Sacha Baron Cohe...
Much like its central character, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a riot - an anarchic glitterbomb of lunacy that boasts some of the most inventive fight sequences ever seen in a comic book movie. Its zany energy and emphasis on Harley Quinn makes for a stunning showcase for Margot Robbie, who commands the scr...
Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee’s epic and introspective meditation on the Vietnam War, is another reminder of the filmmaker’s considerable storytelling skills irrespective of what genre he chooses to work in. Bolstered by an absolutely mesmerizing central performance from Delroy Lindo, the film is a raw and rewarding deep dive into two countries’ still-ope...
Coming from director Autumn de Wilde, Emma. is a delightfully modernized retelling of Jane Austen’s classic novel even with its opulent, delicious period trappings. Emma. soars with its clever editing and Anya Taylor-Joy’s fantastic lead performance, threading a resonant comedic throughline well through Austen’s classic comedy of errors.
While this dark new take on the classic Universal Monster might not be for every audience, its inventive use of abuse and narcissism as a structural outline for horror means that this uniquely grim outing for The Invisible Man works. Writer-director Leigh Whannell's dedication to stark settings, solid performances, and great production design - acc...
Kemp Powers' thoughtful script gives us an insight into what might have been going on behind the sports and entertainment performances that awed us - Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, and Malcolm X - and in doing so urges us to look at what's still going on now. Director Regina King's cast delivers some of the best performances of the year, unvei...
After a career spent exploring the concept of time, director Christopher Nolan finally tackles the subject head-on in Tenet; a film not just interested in timelines, but directly focused on them. It’s a classic Nolan film in almost every way - packed tight with lofty ideas, impeccable set-pieces, and pacy plotting - to the point that it’s practical...
Even before writer-director Aaron Sorkin imbued the event with his patented wordsmithery, the trial of the Chicago 7 was a moment in American history rife with cinematic potential for the way it so clearly laid out a “David vs. Goliath” systemic inequity at the heart of the U.S. justice system. Fifty years after the fact, what Sorkin has arrived at...
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- “Small Axe: Lovers Rock” It’s hard to believe that British filmmaker Steve McQueen gave us not one, not two, not three … but five new movies this year through his dazzling “Small Axe” anthology.
- “Nomadland” Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” unfolds as a deliberately paced series of observations. As the camera drinks in the gorgeous, sometimes ostentatious views of the outdoors, Zhao allows us to nonchalantly visit the characters who inhabit this small corner of the universe.
- “ David Byrne’s American Utopia” "American Utopia" shows what happens when two pop culture giants at the tops of their respective games finally collaborate, bringing a lifetime of experience to bear, and treating their shared love of live performance as a common language.
- “First Cow” “First Cow” opens in the world of today, and a discovery both unsettling and of some archeological/sociological interest. The narrative is then borne back into the past, and eventually it dawns upon the viewer that the discovery is also a giant spoiler, and wishes it weren’t.
Dec 17, 2020 · How to watch it: Mangrove is streaming on Amazon Prime. 11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. In the extraordinary Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, documentarians and brothers Bill and Turner Ross chronicle ...
Dec 3, 2020 · 9. ‘ The Forty-Year-Old Version ’ ( Radha Blank) There’s Woody Allen’s New York, Spike Lee’s and now Radha Blank’s. As a floundering playwright in the midst of a crisis, Blank stakes a ...
Dec 10, 2020 · 6. Nomadland. In her first three films, Chloé Zhao has documented America on the margins, telling the stories of people trying to carve out an existence in the hostile modern West (if you haven ...
