The Medium Place – 2020 Honorable Mentions

Another Round – Da 5 Bloods – Mangrove – Mank- Martin Eden – News of the World – The Personal History of David Copperfield – Possessor Uncut – The Prom – Sorry We Missed You – True Mothers – The Vast of Night – The Wolf of Snow Hollow

 

Henry J. Fromage

Once again, I’m giving you way too much to watch. *Sue me (*But actually don’t).

Not Quite “Good” Enough (2020 movies you should watch – in tiers):

First Tier (you could create another great Top 10 out of this, easily)

The Assistant – Better Days – Promising Young Woman – Babyteeth – The Outpost – Waiting for the Barbarians – The Burnt Orange Heresy – Vivarium – Martin Eden – Arkansas – The Lodge – Blue Story – The Whistlers – The Platform – The Half Of It – A White, White Day – Gretel and Hansel – Swallow – Emma – Tigertail – The King of Staten Island – Hamilton – Palm Springs – Mr. Jones – Homemade – Impetigore – First Cow – Boys State – Tenet – I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Possessor – Synchronic – The Swerve – Bad Education – Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Greyhound – Spontaneous – Time – Charm City Kings – Sometimes Always Never – His House – Identifying Features – The Nest – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm – Red, White and Blue – Survival Skills – Driveways – The Killing of Two Lovers – Mank – Father Soldier Son – Between the World and Me – Sound of Metal – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – To the Ends of the Earth – News of the World – The Climb – Workforce – Soul – Minari – A Sun – One Night in Miami… – Deliver Us from Evil – Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness – Herself – White Lie – Farewell Amor – Jallikattu – Our Friend – The White Tiger – Judas and the Black Messiah – Beginning – True Mothers – The Dig – Undine – This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection – Falling – The Night – Lapsis – The Trial of the Chicago Seven – Test Pattern – Supernova – The Decline – Dead Pigs – Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Mauritanian – The Queen of Black Magic – The Father – The Man Who Sold His Skin

Second Tier

Blow the Man Down – Horse Girl – The Vast of Night – Uncorked – Bull – Sorry We Missed You – Sea Fever – The Traitor – Zombi Child – Why Don’t You Just Die! – The Other Lamb – Big Time Adolescence – The Invisible Man – Bacurau – The Painted Bird – The Gentlemen – The Way Back – End of Sentence – We Are Little Zombies – Feral – Premature – 7500 – The Deeper You Dig – I’m No Longer Here – Share – Bad Trip – House of Hummingbird – The Shadow of Violence – The 24th – Emperor – Host – Synchronic – Alone – 12 Hour Shift – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets – The Forty-Year-Old Version – The Wolf of Snow Hollow – Watch List – The Dark and the Wicked – The Hater – The Call – His House – The Personal History of David Copperfield – Jungleland – Kill It and Leave This Town – Dreamland – Ash – Words on Bathroom Walls – Mangrove – Atlantis – Fire Will Come – Alex Wheatle – The Wolf House – Black Bear – Another Round – Wolfwalkers – Greenland – Hunter Hunter – Sylvie’s Love – Education – Togo – After Midnight – Fourteen – The Surrogate – The Last Shift – Pieces of a Woman – Archenemy – Young Ahmed – Sibyl – World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime – Ema – The Day After I’m Gone – Aviva – Night of the Kings – The World to Come – My Little Sister – Song Without a Name – The Little Things – Escape from Pretoria – A Ghost Waits – The Kid Detective – Rocks – Jumbo – Residue – Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time – Two of Us – Sator – I Blame Society – The Night – Mogul Mowgli – Marona’s Fantastic Tale – Sophie Jones – Widow of Silence – Cherry – The United States Vs. Billie Holliday – Crystal Swan – The Wretched – Lucky

1BR – Ana – Castle in the Ground – The Wanting Mare – The Banker – Color Out of Space – Buffaloed – The Wave – Selah and the Spades – The Quarry – Stray Dolls – The Last Full Measure – Brittany Runs a Marathon – Lost Girls – Beanpole – The Beach House – Da 5 Bloods – Working Man – Hammer – Chameleon – Family Romance, LLC – Deerskin – Amulet – Burden – Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway – The Rental – Spree – Miss Juneteenth – Out Stealing Horses – The Trip to Greece – I Used to Go Here – Black is King – Most Wanted – Matthias and Maxime – Spiral – Save Yourselves! – The Argument – On the Rocks – Rebecca – Tommaso – Bad Hair – Critical Thinking – Sonja: The White Swan – Cuties – The Glorias – Beats – Cut Throat City – Shithouse – Sputnik – Black Box – Animals – Ammonite – Weathering With You – Come Play – Lover’s Rock – Animals – The Call – Hearts and Bones – Let Him Go – Innocence – The Cloud in Her Room – I’m Your Woman – Nimic -A Call to Spy – Let Them All Talk – Ham on Rye – Luxor – Tesla – Retaliation – Dirty God – The Secrets We Keep – Koko-di Koko-da – Baseball Girl – Acute Misfortune – Saint Frances – Spoor – The Informer – Buoyancy – The Place of No Words – Girl – Never Gonna Snow Again – The Truth – The Life Ahead – Blizzard of Souls – Nobody Knows I’m Here – Wasp Network – The Delivered – Intruder – The Last Tree – Parallel – An Easy Girl – Rent-A-Pal – You Will Die at Twenty – Land – Minor Premise – Radium Girls – Dear Comrades! – Malcolm & Marie – Outside the Wire – La Leyenda Negra – Savage – Locked Down – God of the Piano – Burn Burn Burn – Sheep Without a Shepherd – Mafia, Inc – Happy Cleaners – To All the Boys: Always and Forever – 4×4 – Don’t Tell a Soul – Lost Girls & Love Hotels – Sacrifice – Undertow

 

Studies in Pure Entertainment:

To All the Boys : P.S. I Still Love You – Blood Quantum – Capone – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend – Come to Daddy – The Hunt – Underwater – Trolls World Tour – Extraction – Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss – VFW – Butt Boy – Bad Boys for Life – Birds of Prey – Onward – Extra Ordinary – Guns Akimbo – The Lovebirds – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Becky – Zombie for Sale – The Old Guard – We Summon the Darkness – Straight Up – The Pool – Lucky Grandma – Spinster – An American Pickle – Project Power – Followed – Slaxx – Random Acts of Violence – Uncle Peckerhead – Black Water: Abyss – Get Duked! – Bill & Ted Face the Music – The Binge – #Alive – Ashfall – Hit and Run Squad – OK Madam! – Steel Rain 2: Summit – John Bronco – The Stunt Double – David Byrne’s American Utopia – Dead – Faith Ba$ed – VHYes – Run – Lowdown Dirty Criminals – Freaky – Love and Monsters – Safety – Mulan – Yes, God, Yes – Fatman – Wonder Woman: 1984 – Scare Me – The Planters – Death to 2020 – Yearly Departed – The Swordsman – Honest Candidate – Bloody Hell – The Pale Door – Ten Minutes to Midnight – Antarctica – Shadow in the Cloud – Psycho Goreman – Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar – Space Sweepers – The Legend of Baron To’a – Collectors – Monster Hunter – The Croods: A New Age – Jingle Jangle – Debt Collectors – Wira – Lost Bullet – Baby, Done – The One and Only Ivan

 

Docs to Watch:

Crip Camp – 499 – The Painter and the Thief – Capital in the Twenty-First Century – I Wish I Knew – Spelling the Dream – After Parkland – Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché – Welcome to Chechnya – Decade of Fire – Red Penguins – Inmate #1 – Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies – After Parkland – On the Record – The Swamp – Tread – The Social Dilemma – Desert One – American Murder: The Family Next Door – Totally Under Control – Agents of Chaos – Trump A.C./D.C. – The Scheme – Class Action Park – All In: The Fight for Democracy – Dick Johnson is Dead – Us Kids – 537 Votes – What the Constitution Means to Me – A Thousand Cuts – Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds – I Am Greta – Filmfarsi – 69 – City Hall – The Donut King – Collective – Everybody’s Everything – After Truth – My Psychedelic Love Story – Crazy, Not Insane – Baby God – The Mystery of D.B. Cooper – Black Boys – Sunless Shadows – Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story – 40 Years a Prisoner – 76 Days – Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin – Everybody’s Everything – Athlete A – Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché – Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn – The Perfect Weapon – Some Kind of Heaven – Showbiz Kids – Crock of Gold: Another Round with Shane MacGowan – You Don’t Nomi – Mayor – Pressure Cooker – The Art of Political Murder – Assassins – Nationtime – The Mole Agent – The Dissident – Kingdom of Silence – The Reason I Jump – Acasa My Home – Our Time Machine – Coup 53 – #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump – MLK/FBI – The Cordillera of Dreams – My Octopus Teacher – A Glitch in the Matrix – Notturno – Framing Britney Spears – This is Not a Movie – 17 Blocks – Beer! A Love Story – Giving Voice – Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

 

Not Quite “Bad” Enough:

The Photograph – 6 Underground – The Grudge – Hubie Halloween – Journey to China: The Mystery of the Iron Mask – Hillbilly Elegy – Wild Mountain Thyme – Godmothered – Jiu Jitsu – Pinocchio