The 10 best films of 2020 (and five of the worst)
For cinemas, it was a year like no other – but there was still raw British talent and head-spinning action everywhere you looked
22 December 2020 • 6:00am
Rich pickings: Adam Sandler, says Robbie Collin, was the revelation of the year in Uncut Gems
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Even in a historically tough year for cinema, a bewildering number of new films found their way to screens near us. And as parts of the industry turned to streaming in their struggle against Covid-19, many of those screens were very near indeed.
For the first time ever, many of the highest-profile releases could be watched instantly in our living rooms, from Disney’s $200m live-action remake of Mulan to Trolls World Tour and the old-school gavel-banger The Trial of the Chicago 7, which was sold by a jittery Paramount to Netflix three months into the pandemic. Yet even as parts of Hollywood were heaving open the stable door, there was no clear sense of when, or even
Tenet, Uncut Gems and Jojo Rabbit: The 10 best films of 2020 (and five of the worst)
22 Dec, 2020 07:01 PM
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By: Robbie Collin
Even in a historically tough year for cinema, a bewildering number of new films found their way to screens near us. And as parts of the industry turned to streaming in their struggle against Covid-19, many of those screens were very near indeed.
For the first time ever, many of the highest-profile releases could be watched instantly in our living rooms, from Disney s $200m live-action remake of Mulan to Trolls World Tour and the old-school gavel-banger The Trial of the Chicago 7, which was sold by a jittery Paramount to Netflix three months into the pandemic.