2020 Vision: The 10 Best Films of the Year

metroweekly.com:

In the unfathomably innocent January of 2020, I saw Sam Mendes’ breathtaking war thriller 1917 on an IMAX screen. I had no idea then that I’d return to a movie theater only twice more all year.

And I didn’t realize until much later that a different film from 2019 would be the one that resonated most sharply throughout these months of pandemic and protest.

Queen & Slim — Melina Matsoukas and Lena Waithe’s stylish drama about a young Black couple on the run after a violent traffic stop by a racist cop — predicted exactly the ride-or-die, resistance energy we would need in order to survive 2020.

We united in our responsibilities and sacrifices, which included giving up going to the movies en masse, until audiences (and blockbusters) could.