Top 10 Films of 2020
#10 - The Lodge
Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Synopsis: A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
#9 - The Devil All The Time
Director: Antonio Campos
Synopsis: Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.
#8 - The Kid Detective
Director: Evan Morgan
Synopsis: A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
#7 - Palm Springs
Director: Max Barbakow
Synopsis: Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.
#6 - My Octopus Teacher
Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Synopsis: A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
#5 - She Dies Tomorow
Director: Amy Seimetz
Synopsis: Amy thinks she's dying tomorrow...and it's contagious.
#4 - The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Director: Terry Gilliam
Synopsis: Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
#3 - Another Round
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Synopsis: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
#2 - Black Bear
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Synopsis: A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.
#1 - Possessor
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Synopsis: Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
My top 10 favorite films from 2020