Through some dubious method that compiled all of our individual lists (which you can find by clicking on author names or the Best of 2020 tag) and assigned points based on how highly ranked films were and how often they were mentioned, we’ve created this composite list of Cinema Etc’s top 10 films of 2020.…
Most years, my top ten list would just be a list of the ten films I enjoyed the most or was thinking about when writing and I would hope a few people get something out of it, but in a weird year like this one, I figured I would take the opportunity to highlight a…
Hubie Halloween marks the 61st Adam Sandler film I’ve seen. I have seen more films featuring Sandler than films with any other performer and few come remotely close. Though so many of his movies have been widely panned and, in talking with many people, “Sandler film” seems synonymous with garbage, they have been something I…
[Written by Josh Ilan] Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita follows tabloid journalist Marcello Rubini as he navigates a decadent Rome in search of meaning. His setting is one of fleeting excesses, an attitude permeated by the upper-class life he surveys and falls prey to. On the other hand, the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems is located…
Perfectly (and unintentionally, we promise) coinciding with the release of David Lynch’s latest short film What Did Jack Do? this week, our staff highlights some of their favorite short films: Goldman v Silverman (2020) “Favorite short film.” Now those are some words that filled me with a fair bit of dread. Not that I don’t…
Titles are hyperlinked to the contributor’s writing on the films as applicable. Henry Baime: 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire It’s hard to think of anything else as the film of 2019 when this one has defined so much of what I’ve done this year. I spent the last seven months chasing the film…
I’m starting off by breaking the rules a bit and listing 26 instead of the 25 we agreed each of these lists would be because rather than continuing to switch two of them every few hours to try and get the best version of this list, I figured I’m the editor-in-chief here and that’s gotta…
It has been said that comedic acting is far more difficult than dramatic acting. If that’s true, then Adam Sandler just might be the greatest actor of our time. Having spent decades putting out a slew of movies regarded by many as among the worst of all time (though I still love them all),…
At the end of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the characters lament that their world-saving victory will be unknown by the masses. Ben Stiller replies in a close-up, “we’ll know.” Something about that moment always stayed with me, and I still think about it ten years later (no, my ‘best of 2009’…
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