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
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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
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Favourites from 2020 s best of the big and small screens
With 2020 almost over, David Roy takes a look back over the past 12 months and picks his favourite films of the year, along with a couple of TV choices which helped him survive lockdown Robert Pattinson and John David Washington in Tenet
Barry Keoghan and Cosmo Jarvis in Calm With Horses
DESPITE many of the biggest releases planned for 2020 being postponed – we re looking at you, Mr Bond – there was still plenty of film fun to enjoy at the cinema between lockdowns, or indeed at home from the comfort of your own sofa.
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For one blissful month, it seemed like the defining moment of movie culture this year might be the most joyful one, too. Bong Joon Ho’s class warfare crowd-pleaser,
Parasite, had beat the odds, shattered precedent, and overcome an American aversion to subtitles to win the Oscar for Best Picture. What a thing it was to experience live a wonderful glitch in the simulation! Sadly, that night now feels miles away, a distant glimmer in the rearview mirror, a speck of light from the before times of ancient February. Just a few weeks after
Parasite made history, James Bond made other plans: He would
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