Top Ten Films of the Year: 2020
Choosing my top ten films of the year is simultaneously one of my favorite and most-dreaded acts of the year. As the months tick by I compose rough drafts, quarterly rankings and go into every single film wondering, “Will this be top ten-worthy?”… and then December hits, where procrastination kicks in to such a degree that last year, I didn’t even write the intended blog post at the end of it all. These lists have always been exclusively cinematic – after all, the majority of my film watching takes places in a darkened hall (see: my famous (?) race to 100 from two years ago). This has meant that certain titles have missed out, including but my all-time favorite film Moneyball and countless others that I have “had” to excude due to this strict rule-keeping. Of course, for reasons unfortunately now familiar, such cinematic indulgence was not possible this year. Don’t get me wrong, I still managed to collect 31 tickets, but due to being locked at home like so much of the world thi