(Full disclosure: I haven’t seen the five features that make up Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, because Amazon Prime Video botched their Canadian release so badly that I wasn’t able to catch up in time. Also, Josephine Decker’s Shirley – one of the films I was most excited to see in 2020 – still hasn’t made it to Canada. And here’s the best of what I’ve seen, with the caveat that even in a year as scattered and chaotic as this, it remains impossible to see everything that’s out there.
But until then, I’m fortunate enough to be able to watch movies at home – and I’ve been doing that literally every night since this started. I have seen exactly one movie in a theatre since 2020 went fully to hell – Tenet, at a press screening at the Ontario Place Cinesphere – and I would give anything to know when I’ll be able to see the next one. I miss watching something play to a crowd, the electric feeling that runs through a darkened auditorium when 500 people respond to the same experience in 500 slightly different ways. Clockwise from top left: Lovers Rock, First Cow, Nomadland, Residue, Minari and Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Norman Wilner’s top 10 movies of 2020įunny thing about the best movies of 2020: I watched almost all of them at home.
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