The movie’s harsh Western landscape, where two poor travelers (played by John Magaro and Orion Lee) suggests a critique of capitalism as much as Ken Loach’s also excellent modern-day gig economy drama “Sorry We Missed You.” But the tenderness between them, despite it all, could hardly have felt more suited to the times.Ĥ. Set in the Oregon Territory of the 1820s, it’s a portrait of a friendship forged, as it ought to be, on kindness and baked goods. “First Cow”: Any sweetness in life in Kelly Reichardt’s radiant frontier fable is both fleeting and eternal. Here are our picks for the best movies of 2020:ġ. But wherever they played, the best films of the year offered some escape and connection: the possibility of grace, a spark of fury - and something the rest of the world couldn’t offer: the assurance of an ending. It was the year of the drive-in, the backyard-bedsheet screening and the streaming service. In a year that often felt like its own kind of cataclysmic Hollywood production, the movies - even if relegated to smaller screens - were as necessary as ever. Good movies kept coming in 2020, even when everything else stopped.
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