One of 2020’s best films, Minari is a beautiful, bittersweet look at a Korean-American family’s pursuit of the perceived American Dream in 1980s Arkansas.
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Wonder Woman 1984 is a major disappointment, a misfire that doesn’t require us to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but does appear to need a significant reboot just two movies into the franchise.
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Promising Young Woman is a taut, subversive film, unapologetic in analyzing revenge, trauma, and mental and emotional pain, brilliantly conceived by writer/director Emerald Fennell, with a career-best performance by Carey Mulligan.
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It might take more than one viewing to leave an impact, but Pixar’s latest film, Soul, is a wonderful movie about finding your best self and how to live a life of pursuits that make you whole.
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Regina King’s debut feature, One Night in Miami…, brings a fictionalized conversation to life involving four Black icons - Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke - as they come together to reflect on their lives after Ali wins a championship prize fight in February 1964.
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Tom Hanks guides us through News of the World, a throwback Western film with Hanks portraying a traveling storyteller in Texas, c. 1870, tasked with returning a young girl to the only family she has left.
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George Clooney’s return as a leading man and director, The Midnight Sky, is a dystopian science-fiction film which finds good scenes and moments drowned out by a bleak, cold, and distancing story of connection, loneliness, and loss.
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Adapted from August Wilson’s Tony-Award nominated play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom features a story of suppressed pain, distrust, and immense talent, powered by the incredible final performance from Chadwick Boseman and a powerful Viola Davis.
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Among the finest animated films of 2020, Wolfwalkers is a creative, uniquely designed story of empowerment, inner strength and fantastical adventures.
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The Prom is full of the right messages, but Ryan Murphy’s star-studded affair struggles to focus on what’s important and minimizes the very causes it tries to fight for.
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A tender, beautiful, extraordinary look at so many we take for granted or leave behind, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is a towering, yet soft-spoken revelation of a woman navigating a new life after the 2008 economic recession.
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David Fincher’s Mank is technically impressive, well-acted, but a rather emotionless and clinical look at the process Herman Mankiewicz endured to write Citizen Kane, and fulfill his obligation to bring Orson Welles’ iconic film from an idea into a biting, game-changing reality.
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The intriguing Black Bear finds Aubrey Plaza delivering one of the best performances of the year within an experimental movie that asks more questions than it answers.
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There are worse movies in the world than Disney+ release Godmothered, but this holiday-themed family comedy is slight and rather underwhelming.
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A somewhat bizarre film, Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy celebrates a main character simply showing up as heroic, while the pain and anguish he encounters among his loved ones as a nagging inconvenience.
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Honest, unafraid and timely, Garrett Bradley’s Time is a testament to the power of resolve, advocacy, faith and love.
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Romanian documentary Collective is an unforgettable film - beginning with a tragic fire in 2016 and revealing levels of corruption and cover-ups that speak to a greater issue in our world right now: A lack of trust and faith in our institutions and a distrust in those reporting about it.
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Powered by two terrific performances by Sarah Paulson and newcomer Kiera Allen, Run, now available on Hulu, is one of the more fun and wicked little thrillers of 2020.
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Harmless, if not forgettable, The Croods: A New Age serves as a sequel to the 2013 animated film, as the unrefined Croods family unexpectedly cross paths with the self-sustainable and more refined Betterman family.
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Stunning, damning, and impeccably researched, Totally Under Control looks at the way the Trump Administration reacted, responded, and led the United States through its ongoing response to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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