Rolling Stone K. Austin Collins’ Top 20 Movies of 2020
Hollywood flailed and theaters shut their doors but you could still find great films a click away
By From top left to right: Grasshopper Films; S Goodwin/Amazon Studios; Matt Kennedy/Focus Features; Zipporah Films; Allyson Riggs/A24 Films
Any honest accounting of 2020’s year in movies has to start with the resurgence of a 2011 artifact, after Covid-19’s spread to the United States had finally become undeniable among rational people, and Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic movie
Contagion became one of the most-rented films on iTunes. You know, the star-studded viral thriller in which a supervirus, borne of an infected bat, starts to spread out of China and eventually conquers much of the planet, including poor Kate Winslet? It’s also a movie in which an international community of hypercapable scientists the Good Guys get the unfailing support of their respective governments, which are cooperating