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OK, so it's time for my Best and Worst Movie lists of the particularly wacky, cinema experience-killing year of 2020. While it's impossible to see everything I'd want to in a given year, what made this one particularly awful for more than frequent "single" moviegoers like myself was new release films becoming utterly unaffordable on VOD. Meaning that as much as I'd want to see Let Him Go, there is no way I'm going to drop $20 for the privilege, which seems to be the given price point - leaving me to wait months to see some great films once they had a price drop. And given that the affordable tickets led to the physically safe, but visually and audio-appalling experience of drive-ins, whose hip factor utterly eludes me, there went a whole other bunch of movies. Yet while my way over a 100 views of any other normal year were curtailed, I still saw more than enough to arrive at this list that might inspire or cause consternation. So without further ado, here we go in alphabetic order... THE MOVIES OF 2020 THE BEST Freaky The Ghost of Peter Sellers Greyhound His House Love and Monsters Mulan News of the World The Outpost The Prom The Trial of the Chicago 7 THE RUNNERS UP Amulet Archive Arkansas Bad Education Call of the Wild The Invisible Man The King of Staten Island Soul The True History of the Kelly Gang Words on Bathroom Walls THE MOST ENTERTAINING An American Pickle Becky Come To Daddy Extra-Ordinary Fatman The Gentlemen The Hunt Palm Springs Underwater The Wretched THE MOST DISAPPOINTING Artemis Fowl The Christmas Chronicles Part Two Da 5 Bloods The Glorias Hillbilly Elegy Midnight Sky Rise of the Synths Resistance The Witches The Wolf of Snow Hollow THE WORST Capone Dolittle Force of Nature Gretel and Hansel Promising Young Woman Relic Shirley Tenet The Turning You Should Have Left You can check out my Best of Scores at: https://filmmusicinstitute.com/the-best-scores-of-2020/ Here's hoping we can all return to theaters to the end of 2021! Daniel Schweiger
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Thanks to a combination of theater closures and my own indifference to this movie year (which I was feeling early on well before the cinema shutterings), I'm really out of the loop re 2020. I did however see Mank, but don't see it on any of the lists here. I would place it in the Disappointing column: Intriguing subject matter, beautifully film by David Fincher and his team, but falls victim to too many predictable biopic tropes.
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Thanks to a combination of theater closures and my own indifference to this movie year (which I was feeling early on well before the cinema shutterings), I'm really out of the loop re 2020. I did however see Mank, but don't see it on any of the lists here. I would place it in the Disappointing column: Intriguing subject matter, beautifully film by David Fincher and his team, but falls victim to too many predictable biopic tropes. I started out meh for quite a while on Mank, but by halfway through it really won me over, so I quite liked it at the end. So it fulfilled its promise, just took a long while to do it which is why it avoided the "disappointments" column. Same deal with WW84 As for Mulan, I thought it was absolutely terrific. Was very lucky to see it on the big screen before the shuttering, which certainly helped its impact. As much as I love the animated film, I thought this live action was better, not to mention the best of the Disney live action films at that As always, what goes on my list is entirely subjective, which is what all film appreciation, and detraction should be about. I could care less about what the vox populi think, but on the other hand am continually amazing at pretentious film snob critics and cineaste FB poseurs throw on their best list to purposefully show they disdain the films that the "regular people" actually enjoy
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Reluctantly have to agree with Tenet being on the worst film list. Pre-ordered it on 4K and settled down to watch it with mounting excitement, only for it to dissipate within minutes and never return for the entirety of the film. It was as if entertainment had been sacrificed for concept. Sorry, Mr Nolan, but it’s a “no” from me. We enjoyed the music, oddly enough. I don't get Nolan. I just don't, and never have. Emperor's new cloths of utter pretentious, though he's certainly inspired cool music - though not in the case of the repetitive Tenet, which makes zero sense. For a director who's Mr. Smart, it says something that the villain is defeated at the end by suntan lotion. Unendurable
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