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    The 10 Best Films of 2020

    Standouts from an unprecedented year in cinema
    by David Sims Dec 10, 2020 6 minutes
    Source: Charlie Le Maignan

    As we look back on film in 2020, maybe the strangest year in the medium’s history, the question will be whether it was an accelerant or an aberration. The coronavirus pandemic closed most movie theaters in the United States by mid-March, and though many reopened over the year, cinema attendance has dwindled. Has 2020 brought us closer to a new movie-watching reality, in which the at-home experience has supplanted the theatrical one, and audiences can find new releases only by sifting through a trove of streaming and on-demand offerings? Or will 2020 just be a strange, asterisked era, a housebound interruption that dents but doesn’t destroy the appeal of the collective viewing experience?

    Whatever the future holds for this industry, 2020 has challenged my perception of what a movie . The rise of Netflix and its many online rivals has been blurring the line between TV and film for years, luring viewers out of packed theaters and diminishing the importance of opening weekends and. I hope we’ll all be able to do it again.

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