Yesterday, The A.V. Club posted its list of the best movies of 2020. That was, of course and as it always is, a group effort—a picture of the year in film as determined through consensus as much as singular passion. For the latter, you can peruse the individual ballots, which provide a look at how all 12 contributors voted. Or you can press play on the podcast below—the year’s final episode of Film Club, in which our critics, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife, run down their respective top-1o lists and discuss their own favorites of 2020. Admittedly, there’s some consensus between the two of them, too.
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I watched “Fourteen” via Grasshopper’s virtual cinema option, but the theater I picked was the Music Box. I’ve lived in Chicago for years, but have never been to the Gene Siskel Film Center.
I don’t insist that movies about real people be strictly accurate, so I could have accepted that “Shirley” removed Shirley Jackson’s actual children… EXCEPT that the film itself placed so much emphasis on motherhood, using its invented character as a contrast to Shirley. And I just don’t understand that choice.
If abortion politics is at the level of the county, then wouldn’t it make more sense for the girls of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” to go to Philadelphia rather than NYC?