From ‘American Utopia’ to ‘Ma Rainey’: The 10 best films of 2020
For all of us who love the moviegoing experience, 2020 has been, to put it charitably, a trying year. For most of America, and in many parts of the world, going to indoor movie theaters remains largely out of bounds. And so we have adapted by watching films on smallish home screens via DVD, cable, and streaming services. Do I miss seeing films in big theaters on a big screen with a big audience? You bet I do.
Those days will return, but, in the meantime, I am happy to report that my initial concerns of a famished 2020 movie year were vastly exaggerated. A large backlog of small-scale, independent movies, originally poised for a theatrical release, transitioned fairly smoothly to the home screen. The movie studios had a rougher time of it:
