The best Films in 2020
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- DirectorSam MendesStarsDean-Charles ChapmanGeorge MacKayDaniel MaysApril 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.Back then I thought Dunkirk to be the best,strongest War-Film of the last ten years,in all of its gripping,claustrophobic darkness..its panic-striken cold...But 1917 is much much more..It TOUCHES!!In a way you ever and never want to be touched..inside your deepest feelings..(You will like it,if you liked "Dunkirk","Atonement"and "Castaway")
- DirectorBenny SafdieJosh SafdieStarsAdam SandlerJulia FoxIdina MenzelWith his debts mounting and angry collectors closing in, a fast-talking New York City jeweler risks everything in hope of staying afloat and alive.Until now,I only have been someone,who just liked Adam Sandler...Comedies,Drama about Descendants of the 9/11 victims,comedy again,strange and squeeky comedy,Drama,but EVERYTIME two things for sure: Film tied to New York and Film tied to Jewish Culture..Nobody knows and films about NYC as he does..And here,in this GREAT and WONDERFUL tale about a Jewish AceFace in New York he crafted the Character Role of his life as a filmworking man.Now I'm a FAN of him...(You will like it,if you like "Carlito's Way"and "Death of a Salesman")
- DirectorDavid OelhoffenStarsMatthias SchoenaertsReda KatebAdel BencherifDriss and Manuel are two childhood friends who end up taking opposite paths: Manuel chose to embrace the thug life, while Driss becomes a cop. When Manuel's biggest deal goes terribly wrong, the two men meet again and come to realize they both need each other to survive in their worlds.Intense,real-life-ish and epic in small images,but gripping and emotional(You will like it,if you like "A Prophet","Good Fellas" ,"La Haine"and"1900")
- DirectorJoachim RønningStarsAngelina JolieElle FanningHarris DickinsonMaleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.Hm...a typical,modern Disney..first you think about stopping the film for endless,shitty-familyfriendly-overcoloured,tralala craaaap..but THEN!!!it unnoticablychanges into a more adult-friendly,dark fantasy-real historizing Knight vs. Supernatural spectacle..With reminiscenses and hints to Game of Thrones,the 2nd World War,the Me-too-Movement and even the Holocaust(!!!)Unbelievable thing,worth watching for an audience with a need for Action and stunning..but absolutely NOT suitable for children...(You will like it,if you like "Saving Private Ryan","Game of Thrones"and "Romeo & Juliette",the Lurman-Version)
- DirectorFrancesco LettieriStarsAniello ArenaCiro NaccaAntonia TruppoNaples. At almost fifty years old Sandro is the leader of the Apache, a group of ultras with whom he has spent his whole life at the stadium: a life of violence, clashes, passions, and unshakable values. Now that a hooligan prevents him from approaching the curve, those values are starting to falter. He feels for the first time the need for a normal life, a relationship, maybe even a family. Also meeting Terry, who is beautiful and seems to not fear anything. Angelo is sixteen and considers the Apache his family. Sandro is his guide, the person who took the place of his brother, who died years earlier during the clashes of a trip. ULTRAS is the story of their friendship, of a faith and a love marked by the last few weeks of a football championship, and the inevitable meeting of both with their own destiny.This Italian Hooligan/Ultra/Family/Love/ElectroDance-Flick flashed me..it flashed me so much,perhaps because I expected it not to be only ONE little level less...I am not Italian,but,as at least 70 % of European Children in the 70ies/80ies I love Italy from the earliest states of my Perceiption...
Not ONE other country in Europe is able to balance Emotion,Music,History and CINEMA just as DIVINE,as the Italians do..In these hard times,in times of Virus,dying and trying to survive from the fucking Corvid 19,my soul and my heart is with our struggeling friends,children,brothers and sisters in Italy...Just watch "Ultras",as you watched "Suburra","Gomhorra","Dogman"and "Paranza"..and you will know what I mean..and you will know,why this film is brilliant..(You will like it,if you liked the films mentioned above) - DirectorLeigh WhannellStarsElisabeth MossOliver Jackson-CohenHarriet DyerWhen Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.Look...SO MANY Films are labelled "Psycho-Thriller",or just "Thriller"..But after watching this intense,frightening little flick,I'm reminded and I know again,to what a REAL THRILLER is...It is,in a small way,set in a limited and claustrophobic surroundment,very frightening,stunningly brutal in one or two scenes,and from the first to the last second absolutely full of tension.(You will like it,if you liked other versions of "The Invisible Man",like the black and white classic,the one with Chevy Chase or "The Hollow Man",and if you liked "Dial M for Murder" and "Venom",the one with Klaus Kinski and Oliver Reed,where a deadly black Mamba hides in the hideout of Kidnappers)
- DirectorAndrea BerloffStarsMelissa McCarthyTiffany HaddishElisabeth MossThe wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.This starts like the usual,annoying Melissa McCarty-Crap,hm ehm yes no ahahaha pseudo-funny,I don't like her and I don't care if she was fat anbd now isn't annymore,she is,to me,without any meaning.But THIS one is a clear exception in this..After half an hour it develops into a real GOOD Mafia-flick,a nice,dirty little Irish Hell's Kitchen-Story..Nice big shots and shocking assassinations without warning..Your laughter from the first 30 minutes will stay sticking in your gorge..mean,bloody,I say YES!!(You will like it,if you liked "A State of Grace"and "Bella Mafia"..)
- DirectorAlfonso Cortés-CavanillasEsther JiménezAníbal Ruiz-VillarStarsAsier EtxeandiaMarian ÁlvarezHugo SilvaA rebel revolutionary against Franquist's dictatorship who turns deaf after a failed sabotage tries to escape from the military forces who prosecute him.A dark,sad,depressing and lonesome scenery;nobody loves or is loved(at least that is a false trail),a bit comic-esque characters sneak,cry and kill their way through the no way out-plot..(You will like it,if you liked"Lorca","The Sicilian","There be Dragons","Bruc" and "The great Silence")
- DirectorSam HargraveStarsChris HemsworthBryon LerumRyder LerumTyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.this is a JPA(Just Perfect Action),so no more words needed..just WATCH!!!!!(you'll like it,if you liked "John Wick"and "Rambo")
- DirectorJulien LeclercqStarsSami BouajilaEriq EbouaneySamy SeghirSaïd owns a sawmill deep in the woods, which he decides to sell. Little does he know that one of his apprentices was cornered by his brother and forced to hide a large amount of cocaine inside the factory.Again,see above:
JPA.
(you'll like it,if you liked "La Horse","Deliverance" and "Straw Dogs") - DirectorJosh TrankStarsTom HardyLinda CardelliniMatt DillonAfter a 10 year stint, former bootlegger and notorious criminal Al Capone starts to show signs of dementia, forcing him to face the demons of his violent past.This....surprising Masterpiece is explained very fast: It is a bit like Michael Jackson..Personally it's not mine..But I have to respect the cinematic creation and especially everything like camera and,first of all,the PHANTASTIC score by EL-P..Furthermore,please,Film Award Academy of Oscar-LA..LISTEN!!!!!!IF YOU DON'T ELECT TOM HARDY TO THE OSCAR this time,your asses shall burn...(you will like it,if you like "The Irishman","Monsieur N."and "The Judge")
- DirectorSeverin FialaVeronika FranzStarsRiley KeoughJaeden MartellLia McHughA 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.It is difficult,to write and comment on this great one,without spoiling..But let me remind on "The Others",The 6th Sense","Hereditary"and "Tokarev"..if you liked at least one of these,you will like this one
- DirectorRichard StanleyStarsNicolas CageJoely RichardsonMadeleine ArthurA secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.I know,this critic may sound a bit of weird..but look: First of all,if Nicolas Cage has published a new Film,I usually run..I mean he overruns even Steven Seagal..But THIS one is a Lovecraft Story..And THIS one is by the South African Director of M.A.R.K. 13..Worth having a try...So if you like Books like the Lovecraft Books,you will like it...
- DirectorWilliam EubankStarsKristen StewartVincent CasselMamoudou AthieA crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.Again: JPA,to be more exact:JPUnderwaterA.(You will like it,if you like "Deep Star Six","Leviathan" and the "Alien" Films)
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.The purest,meanest,most disturbing and intelligent psychic Horror-Thriller I have seen for the last 10 years,and I watch easily 600 Films per year..It would be unworthy to write about the Film;just watch it and decide,if you search for the bathroom to puke or if you start your pc or smartphone to write a thankful letter to the film team..One thing I consider important:This one is NOT for Children,psychic unstable persons or Main Stream-Lovers..All of you AVOID!!!!!(You will like or even LOVE it,if you like "Cold Skin","The little Girl who lives down the Lane","Altered States","The Terror(Season one)"and "Aguirre")
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsTimothée ChalametElle FanningLiev SchreiberA young couple arrives in New York for a weekend where they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.this is genial.this is woody allens masterpiece.if you listen to its heartbeat,you will get messages for the luck of your soul.who says,that this masterpice is boring or any other things like that,doesnt know the slignhtest thing of a film.Just watch it and carefully watch yourself
- DirectorMelina MatsoukasStarsDaniel KaluuyaJodie Turner-SmithBokeem WoodbineA couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.How could a film be more current,if we witness these days what happens in Minneapolis?If we witness again and again,how FUCKIN racist cops kill black people,again and again,if the unfair US Administration denies true persecution of the Killer Cops and these pigs live on as free men and spit their dirt on the jackets of their correct and human colleagues?I am sure,not every cop in the USA is a Killer and I am sure there are enough good people within them.But as long as they keep on being silent and as long as they do not help justice to put these bastards to where they belong,nothing will change.This film exactly draws a picture of this horrible situation.In days we struggle under the bloody sword of a pandemy,we must find a way to sensibilize people even more to this problem.This film does.
- DirectorBrian KirkStarsChadwick BosemanSienna MillerJ.K. SimmonsAn embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.Impportant Film.First of all a very good Action/Cop/Thriller.I am glad,that,like 2005 not Bruce Willis got the Main Role,that,like 2014,not Will Smith got the main role,that this one even don't THEMATIZE black and white problems,even GET OUT thematized it,THIS ONE just simply goes on with telling a story just INCLUDING black and white on both sides of the law..and it just doesn't mention it..THIS is the way we should look into the cinematic future,
- DirectorGina Prince-BythewoodStarsCharlize TheronKiKi LayneMatthias SchoenaertsA covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered.the first great actionfilm with a lot of real deep emotional moments.And the first Action/fantasy-Film that touched my heart.Perhaps the birth of a new (more female intended)Subgenre..Absolutely great!!!!(You'll like it if you liked "Highlander",the "X-Men" Films and "Flesh & Blood")
- DirectorEric BressStarsBrenton ThwaitesKyle GallnerAlan RitchsonFive American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.A nice little war film,with a nice little twist and guaranting a nice little evening.No Candidate for Gold or Silver,but nice :)
- DirectorKyung-taek KwakKim Tae-yongStarsMegan FoxGeorge EadsLee Jae-wookA unit of student soldiers on a diversionary mission for the Battle of Incheon during the Korean War in 1950.I saw a lot of Films,REMINDING me on Private Ryan..But there is,until now,only one film,what is able to MATCH Private Ryan.No Oscar Candidate,but very very good.
- DirectorJoe BegosStarsStephen LangWilliam SadlerFred WilliamsonA group of old war veterans put their lives on the line to defend a young woman taking shelter in their local VFW post, who's running from a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of drug-addled punks.If you like:
Assault on Precint 13
Dawn of the Dead,both Versions
The Expendables all Parts
Escape from New York
YOU WILL LOVE THIS !!!!!!! - DirectorCiro GuerraStarsMark RylanceJohnny DeppRobert PattinsonAt an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.a dark,hard to watch historical drama.if you liked "I will never fight again","The Desert of the Tartars"and "The Name of the Rose",you'll love this one
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMaria Fernanda CândidoFabrizio FerracaneThe real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.Not very surprising,but told in a sardonic,kind of mocking and somehow bittersweet style,that you sometimes have to grin..Favino was,is and will be one of Italian's best and perhaps the film is a little bit too long..If you like "Good Fellas","Blow"and "Find me guilty",you'll probably love this one.