Screenplay News and Reviews
In a year when festivals will hope for the return of audiences, industry and some sense of normalcy,
Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers from France, Benelux, Nordics, Italy, Germany, Spain, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. ( denotes film previously appeared in Screen’s 2020 list)
Annette
Dir. Leos Carax
Carax’s long-awaited Los Angeles-set musical comedy co-stars Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver as an opera singer and a stand-up comedian, who are parents to a baby girl with a special gift. It is based on a screenplay by fraternal pop and rock duo Ron and Russell Mael, founding frontmen of cult band Sparks. Hopes are high that Carax’s first feature in nine years will premiere at Cannes. The director was last at the festival in competition with
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by Hope Madden and George Wolf, MaddWolf.com
Let’s be honest, no one saw much of anything movie-wise this year. The highest grossing cinematic releases made so little they would have been considered catastrophic bombs in any other year, and streaming numbers confirmed that we were having a hard time zeroing in on new releases.
Still, there were some exceptional films that simply disappeared without even a hello. These are movies that broke new ground, broke our hearts, explored new genre hybrids, reimagined familiar tales, startled our senses, and otherwise just impressed the hell out of us. We really want to introduce you to these guys, which we list in alphabetical order because they deserve equal attention (and we argued too much about the ranking).
Adjusted Score: 77.47%
Critics Consensus: To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You may feel like little more than an amiable postscript to its predecessor, but fans of the original should still find this a swoonworthy sequel.
Synopsis: It s a new year and Lara Jean (Lana Condor) and Peter (Noah Centineo) are no longer pretending to be a. [More]
The highest-grossing movie of 2020 was an action movie. This was simply by default; movie theaters were only really a thing for the first two and a half months of the year.
Bad Boys For Life wouldn’t have even been one of the 10 biggest hits of 2019. But it was a genuine hit. The third
Bad Boys movie came out in a sleepy mid-January weekend with only Oscar contenders as its competition, and it managed to pull in more than $200 million domestic impressive for a new entry in an action franchise that had been quiet for 17 years. It’s a pretty fun ride, too, with Jacob Scipio turning in a magnetic superhuman-villain performance and directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah proving that they’re better at Michael Bay-style shootouts than Bay himself is these days.
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