These days, it's typical for the amount of television I consume to far outpace the number of movies I see. Getting out to the theater is (well, was) more of An Event than ever, and it was just easier to park myself on the couch. In 2020, though, they flipped. I still watched plenty of TV, but I saw way more movies than in other recent years. It's not hard to see why. COVID made at-home streaming the only way to see anything, and with a bunch of time freed up by not being able to go out and socialize, movies rushed in to fill the gap.
That doesn't mean I got to see a lot of 2020 movies. Output was slim this year, so it was mostly older movies I was able to catch up with. Still, I did get to a handful of new releases, and picking a favorite was pretty easy. Palm Springs was a terrific new spin on the Groundhog Day trope. I didn't think it was possible to make yet another time loop story seem fresh, but thanks to hilarious performances from Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, I was more than happy to watch them stagger through an uncomfortable wedding again and again and again.
Here's the full ranking of 2020 movies:
Palm Springs (A)
Hamilton (A)
Soul (A-)
The Witches (B+)
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (B+)
Happiest Season (B)
Onward (B)
The Taste of Pho (B-)
The Willoughbys (C+)
Wonder Woman 1984 (C)
The internet was full of recommendations for things to watch during quarantine, and between those and the films that just caught my interest as a matter of course, my pre-2020 movie list was stacked:
Parasite (2019) (A)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (A)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (A)
A Star is Born (2018) (A)
Little Women (2019) (A-)
Three Identical Strangers (2018) (B+)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) (B+)
Begin Again (2013) (B+)
Velvet Goldmine (1998) (B+)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (B+)
Hello, Dolly! (1969) (B+)
Shazam! (2019) (B+)
Gypsy (1993) (B)
Toy Story 4 (2019) (B)
Dolemite is My Name (2019) (B)
Downton Abbey (2019) (B)
About Time (2013) (B)
Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018) (B)
Save the Last Dance (2001) (B)
The Five Heartbeats (1991) (B-)
Set it Up (2018) (B-)
Frozen 2 (2019) (B-)
The Harvey Girls (1946) (B-)
Klaus (2019) (B-)
I Lost My Body (2019) (B-)
Cause for Alarm! (1951) (C+)
The Invention of Lying (2009) (C+)
The Good Dinosaur (2015) (C+)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (C)
Yesterday (2019) (C)
F for Fake (1973) (C)
Honey (2003) (C)
Polly (1989) (C)
Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001) (C-)
Raise Your Voice (2004) (D+)
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