December 12, 2020

Top 10 Films of 2020

1. "Dear Comrades" (Andrey Konchalovsky, Russia)

2. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (George C. Wolfe, Netflix)

3. "Felicita" (Bruno Merle, France)

4. "Cocoon" (Leonie Krippendorff, Germany)

5. "DAU Natasha" (Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Ukraine)

6. "I Care A Lot" (J Blakeson, Netflix)


8. "Palm Springs" (Max Barbakow, Hulu)

9. "Promising Young Woman" (Emerald Fennell, Focus)

10. "Quo Vadis Aida" (Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia)


Other great films:

Another Round (Denmark)
Better Days (China)
Collective (Romania)
Come To Daddy (Canada)
DAU Katya Tanya (Ukraine)
DAU New Man (Ukraine)
Drowsy City (Vietnam)
Ete 85 (France)
The Man Standing Next (South Korea)
Mignonnes (France)
Monday (Greece)
My Octopus Teacher (South Africa)
Nadia Butterfly (Canada)
Pinocchio (Italy)
Pompei (Canada)
Possessor (Canada)
Speak Love (Canada)
Sugar Daddy (Canada)
Tito (Canada)
Violation (Canada)
Wasp Network (France)
Wintopia (Canada)
Wolfwalkers (Ireland)

Top 3 Shorts:

1. "Do Not Split" (Anders Hammer, Norway)

2. "Strange Nostalgia" (Alex Proyas, Australia)

3. "Wake Up" (Olivia Wilde, USA)


Other great shorts:

Hidden (Iran)
Nitrate (Canada)
Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Love Me Like You Hate Me" (Luke Turner)

2. "The Man" (Taylor Swift)

3. "Rain On Me" (Robert Rodriguez, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande)


Other great music videos:


Top Commercial:

"Cheers To All" (Heineken)


Other great commercials:


1. "Genius Loci" (Adrien Mérigeau, France)

2. "Once Upon A Snowman" (Dan Abraham, Trent Correy, Disney)

3. "Burrow" (Madeline Sharafian, Pixar)


Other great cartoons:

La Marche (Canada)
Moi Barnabe (Canada)
Sol Levante (Japan)
Yes People (Iceland)

Top VR film:

"Wiktoria 1920" (Tomasz Dobosz, Poland)


Top 3 Stand-Up Comedy Shows:

1. "Sincerely Louis CK" (Louis C.K.)

2. "Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis" (Marcus Raboy, Netflix)

3. "Jim Jefferies: Intolerant" (Scott Zabielski, Netflix)


Weak films of 2020:

ADN (France)
Adolescentes (France)
Blood Quantum (Canada)
La Daronne (France)
Deux (France)
Falling (Canada)
Kid Detective (Canada)
Les Libres (Canada)
La Llorona (Guatemala)
Mont Foster (Canada)
Les Notres (Canada)
La Nuit des rois (Ivory Coast)
Passage (Canada)
Rustic Oracle (Canada)
Souterrain (Canada)
Vacarme (Canada)
La Verite (France)

Weak shorts:

Aniksha (Mauritius)
Cayenne (Canada)
CHSLD (Canada)
Colette (France)
Ecume (Canada)
Goodbye Golovin (Ukraine)
Life Of A Dog (Canada)
Lune (Canada)
The Present (Palestine)

Weak cartoons:

The Fourfold (Canada)

Weak TV shows:

December 10, 2020

Top 3 Musicals of 2020

 1. "David Byrne's American Utopia" (Spike Lee, HBO)


2. "Hamilton" (Thomas Kail, Disney)



November 11, 2020

Dear Comrades (2020) *****

October 10, 2020

Felicita (2020) ****

Excellent French film full of surprising plot twists.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) ****

September 9, 2020

Greyhound (2020) ***

Tense war drama about the Battle of the Atlantic.

I Care A Lot (2020) ***

Pieces Of A Woman (2020) ***

Emma. (2020) ***

United States Vs Billie Holliday (2020) ***

Wolfwalkers (2020) ***

An Irish "Princess Mononoke".

Mank (2020) ***

Jusqu'au declin (2020) ***

Speak Love (2020) ***

Love And Monsters (2020) ***