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- 2020 was a strange year for movies, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down movie theaters, paused productions, and shifted the entire year’s movie release schedule. Many of the year’s biggest planned releases wound up going straight to VOD, or eked out small theatrical runs in whatever markets they could. Many more were delayed to 2021.
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- THE BEST MOVIE IN 2020. Nomadland. The Best Movie in 2020 • Nomadland. Nomadland is a beautiful portrait of what it means to leave society behind, directed to perfection by Chloé Zhao.
- GREAT 2020 MOVIES LIST. First Cow. 2020 Movies List • Lincoln Center. First Cow has had a lot of awards buzz since it debuted to general audiences earlier in 2020.
- BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR (2020) Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Best 2020 Movies • The New York Times. Never Rarely Sometimes Always came out early in 2020 and is one of the most tender films on this list about a sensitive subject.
- OUR LIST OF 2020 BEST MOVIES. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Best Movies in 2020 • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Based on the August Wilson play of the same name, this film shows what happens during a single recording session involving legendary singer Ma Rainey and her bandmates.
Dec 16, 2020 · 2020 was a strange year for movies, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down movie theaters, paused productions, and shifted the entire year’s movie release schedule. Many of the year’s...
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Dec 16, 2020 · The COVID-19 quarantine had a terrible impact on theaters in 2020, shutting down movie venues, delaying blockbusters, and putting off the MCU and other big franchises until 2021.
- Bill and Ted Face The Music
- Miss Juneteenth
- Nomadland
- Wolfwalkers
- Emma.
- Lovers Rock
- David Byrne’s American Utopia
- The Trial of The Chicago 7
- Collective
- First Cow
In an unequivocally terrible year, who didn’t need a crazy, ebullient, deeply gratifying burst of optimism? Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reappeared in the roles they originated some three decades ago: then, they were goofy but open-hearted teenage guitar obsessives from San Dimas, Calif., who changed the world via a time-travel phone booth. Today, ...
In an America so divided that it sometimes seems each inhabitant is the sole citizen of his or her own stubborn country, writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ debut feature is a balm. Nicole Beharie gives a marvelous performance as a former pageant winner who tries to project her own dreams onto her teenage daughter, though this story is univer...
What’s the meaning of home? Is it the dwelling we live in, or a spirit that dwells within us? That’s the question Chloé Zhao explores in the radiant and perceptive Nomadland. Frances McDormand gives a sterling performance as a widow who sells off her house and takes to the road in a van kitted out with the essentials for living, picking up seasonal...
This beguiling animated delight from Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart tells the story of an English girl in 17th century Ireland who longs to become a wolf hunter like her father—only to befriend a mysterious forest-dwelling punkette who carries the secret of the wolves within her very being. Wolfwalkersis brushed with the mystical spirit of a Kate Bush...
Though Jane Austen has never been exactly obscure, her career as a superstar of mugs and cloth tote bags is a fairly recent development. Autumn de Wilde’s bright and lively adaptation of Austen’s 1815 novel gets back to basics, reminding us why her work has endured. Anya Taylor-Joy plays the eponymous meddlesome heroine; Johnny Flynn is the family ...
This is the shortest of the films in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, but its hypnotic beauty is immeasurable. In London circa 1980, West Indians—often denied entrance to clubs—would host their own house parties, swaying on the dance floor as all manner of amorous possibilities played out, or failed to. Lovers Rockcaptures the energy and promis...
This grand and glorious filmed record of David Byrne’s hit Broadway show, directed by Spike Lee, is a work of great joy and expressiveness, a tower of song with room for everybody. As performed by Byrne and his troupe of 11 musicians and dancers, the numbers—some of them recent Byrne compositions, others drawn from his body of work with Talking Hea...
Aaron Sorkin details the half-circuslike, half-somber drama of an intense pocket of American history, during which a group of anti-war activists were tried for conspiring to incite violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The result is a lively work attuned to civic responsibility and small-d democratic ideals, a movie as simultaneously...
Alexander Nanou’s Collective, which follows a team of Romanian journalists as they uncover a health-care scandal whose tentacles reach deep into a corrupt government, is that rare documentary that plays like a political thriller. But It’s also a deeply moving testament to both the power and the necessity of investigative journalism—in any country r...
In the verdant Pacific Northwest of the 1820s, two settlers—a baker and a Chinese immigrant with an entrepreneurial streak—start a business selling fried cakes made with the purloined milk of a local cow. The enterprise takes off, as their friendship deepens. Both tranquil and dazzling, Kelly Reichardt’s First Cowis a song of this weird, rough-edge...
Dec 21, 2020 · We all know that 2020 has been a very strange year for movies, with many of the biggest films delayed - and then delayed again - and many others going straight to streaming, or...
May 22, 2020 · Yes, it’s been a weird year for movies, but our chief critics have still found plenty of gems. Here are their top picks.
Dec 23, 2020 · To say that 2020 has been a strange year for movies would be a massive understatement.
