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From blockbuster epics to intimate character studies, the 2020s have already given us some incredible cinema! Join us as we count down our picks for the most outstanding films released since 2020. Our list includes groundbreaking works from Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, the Daniels, and more! What's your favorite movie of this decade so far?
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00:00I'm a Puerto Rican.
00:02You just figuring that out?
00:04From down here, I wasn't sure.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best films to be released since the year
00:122020.
00:13I love the way you look. You have a kindness, and of course you're very attractive.
00:18I didn't feel like that.
00:19It's okay. I understand.
00:21Number 20, Soul.
00:232020 gave us two Pixar films, both of which touched upon life, death, and what makes us human.
00:29Is this heaven?
00:31No.
00:33Is it H-E-Double Hockey Sticks?
00:36Help?
00:39Quiet, Coyote!
00:41It's easy to get turned around.
00:43Granted, the main characters in Onward were technically elves, but their struggles and dynamics certainly felt human.
00:49As wonderful as that film is, Soul stands out as this year's greatest achievement in animation,
00:54not only on a technical level, but in terms of storytelling as well.
00:58With Inside Out, director Pete Docter took us on an inventive exploration of the human mind.
01:03Along with co-director Kemp Powers, Docter goes to even deeper places in Soul.
01:08Am I close? We're gonna jump in.
01:10Look, there I am!
01:12There I am.
01:14His heart rate is increasing. I'll get the doctor.
01:16Mr. Mittens, you stand right there.
01:18Aside from bringing great joy to audiences of all ages,
01:21the film's life-affirming message reminds us what's most important.
01:25Wow.
01:34Funny, profound, and soulful, it's a movie that we all needed in 2020.
01:40Number 19. Challengers.
01:42Some might describe the central relationship of Challengers as a love triangle.
01:46A love square might be more accurate, as one thing drives every character.
01:51Tennis.
01:52Come on!
01:54For Zendaya's Tashi, it doesn't matter if she ends up with Josh O'Connor's Patrick or Mike Feist's art.
02:01Which one of us?
02:05As long as she gets to experience a good game, she'll be satisfied.
02:08Whether using tennis as an allegory for sex or being more literal,
02:12Luca Guadagnino has made the steamiest movie of the year.
02:15Challengers is just as much a character study about people striving to be the best.
02:19Not just on the court.
02:21Although, it is the domain that matters most.
02:23Does Art know about Atlanta?
02:28He keeps saying you came here because Art needed matches.
02:33I think he came for something else.
02:35As gripping as the tennis matches are,
02:37the internal conflict between these three is what makes Challengers a winner.
02:41You don't know what tennis is.
02:43What is it?
02:46It's a relationship.
02:47Number 18, Triple R.
02:58Sometimes, the simplest titles pack the most powerful punches.
03:02When we think of contemporary epics,
03:04Triple R immediately comes to mind.
03:07Epic is just one genre this beast of a motion picture manages to encapsulate.
03:10It's also 2022's most invigorating musical and most satisfying buddy picture,
03:16with insanely inventive action sequences that put most Hollywood blockbusters to shame.
03:21You might be wondering how one film can flawlessly balance so many elements that seemingly shouldn't go together.
03:31Simply put, it's an experience you need to see to believe.
03:34Director SS Rajamuli had already produced some of India's most successful films.
03:40Still, he outdid himself with this Herculean effort
03:43that will have you rising, roaring, and revolting against more conventional entertainment.
03:53Number 17, Barbie.
03:55I'm no longer on tiptoes.
03:57That's okay.
03:58Let me see.
04:05Barbie shattered the long, outdated studio mentality
04:08that films aimed at female audiences can't gross over a billion dollars.
04:12Just as game-changing,
04:14Greta Gerwig prompted a rethinking of what a film based on a popular toy line can be.
04:18Barbie pulls off a seemingly impossible balancing act,
04:21embracing the brand while calling out every criticism,
04:25being commercial while still being auteur-driven,
04:27employing a meaningful message without eclipsing the comedy,
04:31appealing to younger demographics while proving more fun for adults.
04:34Thoughts of death?
04:35Thoughts of death!
04:37Is that a problem?
04:38Much like how Barbie can be anything,
04:40Gerwig has made a film that works on every level,
04:43venturing into bold new territory along the way.
04:46Throw in a pitch-perfect cast including Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling,
04:50and Barbie was 2023's most unexpected stepping stone in the evolution of cinema.
04:55Is it Ken?
04:56Ken's just a really good friend.
04:58And this is my dream house.
04:59It's Barbie's dream house.
05:00It's not Ken's dream house, right?
05:02Ha ha ha ha.
05:03Right, as always.
05:04Number 16.
05:05Top Gun Maverick.
05:07Let me be clear.
05:08This will be your last post, Captain.
05:12You fly for Top Gun,
05:14or you don't fly for the Navy ever again.
05:16Even in an era of nostalgia,
05:18there's always a risk in resurrecting a decades-old franchise like Top Gun,
05:22especially with the pandemic forcing audiences to be more selective.
05:26Although Maverick was flooded with streaming offers,
05:29Tom Cruise insisted that the long-awaited sequel be reserved for the big screen.
05:33You know what happens to you if you go through with this.
05:38I know what happens to everyone else if I don't.
05:41This gamble paid off in spades,
05:42becoming Paramount's biggest movie domestically
05:45and Cruise's highest-grossing film worldwide.
05:48With spectacular action that places you right in the cockpit,
05:51this wasn't just a movie you needed to see on the largest screen possible.
05:54It was an experience that required second and even third viewings.
05:58It's the kind of summer blockbuster that Hollywood just doesn't seem to produce anymore.
06:01With any luck, though, perhaps more studios will follow director Joseph Kaczynski's example.
06:07This isn't a joke.
06:08I asked you a question.
06:11I'm where I belong, sir.
06:14Number 15. Nomadland.
06:162020 marked one of the most difficult chapters in human history since the Great Recession.
06:21In that sense, Nomadland couldn't have arrived at a more appropriate time.
06:26It's like my dad used to say,
06:29what's remembered lives.
06:35I maybe spent too much of my life just remembering Bob.
06:40Although Nomadland focuses on a challenging period,
06:42it'll leave audiences feeling more hopeful,
06:45which is especially welcome now.
06:47You can die out here.
06:47You're out in the wilderness, far away from anybody.
06:50You can die out here.
06:51Don't you understand that?
06:52You have to take it seriously.
06:53You have to have a way to get help.
06:55You have to be able to change your own tire.
06:57Appreciate it.
06:58Thanks, thank you.
06:58Based on a non-fiction book,
07:00the story follows a woman who travels across the American West
07:03after the recession leaves her with nothing.
07:05This profoundly emotional film is carried by a phenomenal performance from Frances McDormand
07:10and the considerable talents of Chloe Zhao,
07:13who serves as the director, writer, co-producer, and editor.
07:17Where do you want this?
07:22Fern, I'm sorry.
07:24I'm sorry, I didn't know you.
07:26Go over there.
07:27Number 14, Weapons.
07:37Taking cues from the likes of Magnolia and Prisoners,
07:40Zach Kreger's sophomore feature is horror at its most ambiguous and confrontational,
07:44and we love it all the more for it.
07:47Spinning a variety of perspectives together,
07:49Weapons centers around the mysterious disappearance of a classroom of children
07:52who all leave their homes on the same night.
07:55It's an unsettling premise on its face,
07:57and like any great mystery,
07:58each new revelation provokes a strange mix of shock and uncomfortable laughter.
08:03It's a thematically well-rounded story
08:05that explores the dark underbelly of an idyllic community with disturbing imagery,
08:09particularly once Amy Madigan's Gladys gets involved.
08:21Incredibly, Weapons resists a definitive meaning,
08:24encouraging the audience to draw their own conclusions about what it's all supposed to mean.
08:28What are you doing back there?
08:29Wait.
08:36Number 13, Hamnet.
08:38Is it true you know everything about a person by touching them here?
08:43Not everything.
08:44Another heartbreaking and powerfully acted movie about art's connection to trauma,
08:48Hamnet pulls back the curtain on one of the most famous tragedies of all.
08:52Though heavily fictionalized,
08:53this look at William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes
08:55is an excruciatingly real portrayal of grief in its rawest form.
08:59Paul Meskel and especially Jesse Buckley turn in career-best performances
09:03as a couple processing the loss of their son,
09:05tapping into unimaginable sorrow with both ferocity and tenderness.
09:09That place in your head is now more real to you than anywhere else.
09:13I am myself indifferent.
09:14I am myself indifferent on it.
09:16Again!
09:17It's not easy for a film to be both unbelievably sad and daringly optimistic,
09:21but Hamnet makes that emotional balance look easy.
09:24Day, smile, play.
09:29Never forget for a moment.
09:32Number 12, Killers of the Flower Moon.
09:35I think we should be a little more considerate about how we spend Molly's money.
09:40Ernest, I don't mean that as a criticism, I'm just saying.
09:43You bought a farm?
09:45Yeah.
09:46Okay, you didn't consult me.
09:47Maybe you should have consulted me because I'm there for you, Ernest.
09:50The only thing more shocking than the injustice at the core of this epic crime drama
09:55is how the Osage murders have widely gone overlooked until recently.
09:59Martin Scorsese initially conceived this adaptation of David Grand's non-fiction book
10:03with Leonardo DiCaprio leading as Tom White, the agent investigating the conspiracy.
10:08She has no face.
10:12They took her head.
10:14We didn't smoke her to the sky.
10:17Why? Wakanda won't know her.
10:20They smoked the house.
10:22They smoked the house, darling.
10:24You just don't remember, that's all.
10:27You don't remember.
10:28Killers of the Flower Moon isn't a whodunit, however.
10:31It's a who didn't do it,
10:33leading to DiCaprio instead playing Ernest Burkhart,
10:36a pathetic lackey whose affection for his Osage wife
10:39is outweighed by his loyalty to his corrupt uncle.
10:41Robert De Niro is chillingly effective in the subtlest ways,
10:45but Lily Gladstone gives the film's best performance
10:48as a woman slowly accepting the betrayal happening under her nose.
10:51Once again, Scorsese has defined the term masterpiece.
10:56Mrs. Molly Cobb, 50 years of age,
11:01passed away at 11 o'clock Wednesday night at her home.
11:05She was a full-blood Osage.
11:09She was buried in the old cemetery in Grey Horse,
11:13beside her father,
11:15her mother,
11:16her sisters,
11:18and her daughter.
11:20Number 11.
11:21The Substance.
11:22The Substance is a satire so spot-on
11:25that it makes our skin crawl.
11:26I'd like
11:28to order.
11:39Some might describe the film as over-the-top.
11:42It is,
11:43but so are the lengths people go to preserve youth and beauty,
11:46especially in showbiz.
11:47At 50,
11:49well,
11:51it stops.
11:53What stops?
11:55Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley
11:56masterfully play two sides of the same coin
11:58in The Fruitless Pursuit of Perfection.
12:01I'm Sue.
12:03Director Coralie Fargeat
12:05turns in a tour de force of visual storytelling
12:07with haunting production design
12:09that can turn a location as common as a bathroom into a cell.
12:12The makeup design is also god-tier,
12:15emphasizing the true price of fame.
12:17The balance just needs to be respected.
12:20So respect it.
12:21Sometimes,
12:21the more you try to fix,
12:23the more you take away
12:24until the person staring back in the mirror
12:26is unrecognizable,
12:28not always in flattering ways.
12:30I just,
12:32I try to be myself.
12:34Number 10,
12:35The Holdovers.
12:36Your uniform,
12:37festive as it is,
12:38is historically inaccurate.
12:41St. Nicholas of Myra
12:42was actually a 4th century Greek bishop
12:45from what is now Turkey.
12:47So a robe and sandals
12:48would be closer to the mark.
12:50School is the last place
12:51anybody wants to be over the holidays,
12:53unless you're an academic Grinch
12:55like Paul Giamatti's Mr. Hunnam.
12:57Even his Christmas is spoiled, though,
12:58by the presence of Dominic Cessa's Angus,
13:00a student with no home to return to.
13:03Divine Joy Randolph
13:04rounds out one of the year's
13:05most memorable trios in The Holdovers,
13:07which meticulously captures
13:09the look and tone
13:10of a 70s dramedy
13:11from the studio logos onward.
13:15Well, let's make the best of it,
13:17shall we?
13:19The Vietnam War era backdrop
13:21sets a bleak tone for a film
13:23that explores isolation,
13:24pessimism,
13:25and other feelings
13:25that the holidays are prone to summon.
13:27At the same time,
13:28Alexander Payne
13:29has made a warm Christmas classic,
13:31bringing out the humanity
13:32of the holiday spirit
13:33in unexpected places.
13:35To my two unlikely companions
13:37on this snowy island,
13:39and to our absent friends and family.
13:44Number 9.
13:45Godzilla Minus One
13:46Godzilla Minus One excels
14:00where many recent entries
14:01to the series have fallen short.
14:02Takashi Yamazaki delivers
14:04on the kaiju carnage,
14:06presenting the most intimidating
14:07incarnation of Godzilla
14:08in a while.
14:09Even more impressive,
14:10Yamazaki has made a monster picture
14:12where we actually care
14:13about the human characters.
14:27Ryunosuke Kamiki
14:28gives a heartbreaking performance
14:29as a former kamikaze pilot
14:31who survived World War II.
14:32but is still fighting
14:33an internal war
14:34as he struggles
14:35to accept happiness.
14:36Yamazaki returns
14:37to the franchise's roots,
14:39reminding audiences
14:39that the 1954 classic
14:41started as an allegory
14:42for the atomic bomb.
14:44Godzilla Minus One
14:45builds upon that theme
14:46with a story of survivor's guilt
14:47and moments of legitimate terror,
14:49producing a war movie first
14:51and a monster movie second.
15:03Number 8.
15:04Marty Supreme
15:13Benny and Josh Safdie
15:15are masters at crafting
15:16adrenaline-pumping movies
15:17that make us nervous
15:18in the most exciting ways.
15:20That is still the case
15:21when the brothers go solo,
15:22and Josh completely outdoes himself
15:24with the frantic sports epic
15:26Marty Supreme.
15:27Starring Timothee Chalamet
15:28in yet another awards-worthy performance,
15:30the movie follows
15:31the titular Marty
15:32on a madcap quest
15:33to prove he's
15:34the world's best ping-pong player.
15:35I can't support your mother.
15:38You're not gonna have to
15:39because I'm gonna step up.
15:40I'm gonna step up
15:41in a way you can't even imagine.
15:43Between his performance,
15:44Safdie's exhilarating direction,
15:46and the movie's relentless pace,
15:48Marty Supreme
15:48has earned comparisons
15:49to other studies in Decadence,
15:51like The Wolf of Wall Street
15:52and Catch Me If You Can.
15:53Though still very much
15:54a Safdie flick,
15:55only time will tell
15:56what kind of standards
15:57it will set
15:58for the sports genre as a whole.
15:59See, you're already following it
16:00way better.
16:01Look at his eyes.
16:01You're looking more engaged now.
16:03A custom ball like that
16:04is gonna cost a lot of money.
16:06Of course it's custom.
16:06It's an original ball
16:07for an original guy.
16:08It's a Marty Supremo,
16:09not the Marty normal ball.
16:10Number 7.
16:11Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse
16:13There remains an assumption
16:15that if a movie is animated,
16:16it must be for the kiddie crowd.
16:18With Across the Spider-Verse,
16:20Miles Morales responded,
16:22Nah, I'm gonna do my own thing.
16:25We'd say that
16:26Across the Spider-Verse
16:27pushes the boundaries of animation,
16:28but the truth is
16:29that animation has no boundaries.
16:31Rather, this film pushes forward
16:32to unexplored territory,
16:34throwing out the rulebook
16:35in the process.
16:36I am an vulture,
16:37the pinnacle of man's genius.
16:40You're not my vulture.
16:41Not just the rulebook
16:42for what's expected from animation,
16:44but what's expected
16:44from a Spider-Man movie.
16:46At the same time,
16:47to say that the filmmaker's
16:48love for Spidey
16:49is on display in every frame
16:51would be an understatement.
16:52The film is Spider-Sense Overload,
16:54serving a visual feast
16:56so bountiful
16:57that you almost forget
16:58another course is coming.
16:59That said,
17:00we are hungry
17:01for the next chapter.
17:02I'm Spider-Man.
17:03No one can take that away from you.
17:06Unbelievable.
17:06Come back to your nemesis.
17:08Don't escape.
17:09Your costume's too tight
17:10in the back, by the way.
17:11Number 6.
17:12Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
17:14Evelyn.
17:17What are you doing?
17:19I'm learning to fight like you.
17:22Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
17:24is something of a miracle
17:25by modern standards.
17:26A film that's funny,
17:28touching,
17:29heart-racing,
17:30visually ambitious,
17:31philosophically stimulating,
17:32and boldly original.
17:34To top it all off,
17:35audiences sought the film out
17:37almost through word of mouth alone,
17:38making back almost four times
17:40its $25 million budget.
17:42The exceptional ensemble
17:44includes a career best performance
17:46from the legendary Michelle Yeoh,
17:47a comeback from Kihui Kwan,
17:49and a star-making turn
17:51from Stephanie Hsu.
17:52Right is a tiny box
17:54invented by people who are afraid.
17:56And I know what it feels like
17:58to be trapped inside that box.
18:00In more ways than one,
18:01the film is the equivalent
18:03of an everything bagel.
18:04It's topped with everything
18:05a true cinema-goer could ask for.
18:07It is possible to have
18:09too much of a good thing,
18:10but the Daniels knew
18:11exactly how much
18:12to bite off
18:13with this tour de force.
18:14Hey,
18:15you said I was the wrong one.
18:17What you did back there,
18:19it changed my mind.
18:22You were incredible.
18:24Number five,
18:25Sinners.
18:26I don't know who do,
18:27and I can't talk slick,
18:28but I know business.
18:30And this is bad for business.
18:32It's opening night.
18:33Besides,
18:34I want to be a few of them like this.
18:36Yeah,
18:36maybe you saw this one coming.
18:37But could you blame us?
18:39Black Panther
18:39and Creed director
18:40Ryan Coogler
18:41re-teamed with Michael B. Jordan
18:42to deliver one of the most original,
18:44most purely entertaining
18:45blockbuster films in years.
19:02A masterful blend of horror,
19:04Western,
19:04and musical elements,
19:06Sinners wowed audiences
19:07to the tune of $357.2 million.
19:11That was on a budget of $90 million,
19:13which surely gave Warner Brothers
19:15something to smile about
19:15after Mickey 17.
19:17Starring Jordan as twins,
19:18Smoke,
19:19and Stack Moore,
19:20Sinners elevates its genre trappings
19:21to thoughtfully explore
19:23how racism ultimately hurts
19:24all of us.
19:25There are legends of people
19:28born with the gift
19:29of making music so true
19:31it can pierce the veil
19:34between life and death,
19:37conjuring spirits from the past
19:39somebody take me
19:42and the future.
19:48Number 4.
19:49Anora.
19:50Imagine Pretty Woman
19:51if it got hit with a reality bomb.
19:53I'm Ivan,
19:55and you can call me just Vanya.
19:58Vanya, okay.
19:59Yeah.
20:00That is one way of describing
20:02Sean Baker's Anora,
20:03a film where the titular character
20:05experiences the most excessive
20:07of highs followed by
20:08a sharp turn into rock bottom.
20:10Where are we going, Ivan?
20:12I don't know where are we going,
20:13but we are going.
20:15Like Julia Roberts,
20:16Mikey Madison deserves to become
20:18an overnight household name
20:19with her brave,
20:20hilarious,
20:21and empathetic performance.
20:22I need you to tell that.
20:24Vanya, this is not funny.
20:27Vanya, look at me, baby.
20:29Let's stay married, okay?
20:30For a film that goes
20:31to some chaotic places,
20:33Anora sneaks up on you
20:34with its screwball charm and romance.
20:36Yes, there is a sincere love story
20:38blooming beneath the surface,
20:39although the main character
20:41struggles to recognize love
20:42when it looks her in the face.
20:43Madison and Baker have given us
20:45one of the 21st century's
20:46most compelling protagonists
20:48in any medium.
20:49Jealousy is a disease,
20:51remember that diamond.
20:52I'm just gonna go
20:53chill in my mansion
20:54or whatever,
20:55you know, no big deal.
20:56Number three,
20:58One Battle After Another.
20:59I have abused drugs
21:00and alcohol
21:02for the past 30 years, man.
21:04I'm a drug and alcohol lover,
21:07and I cannot remember
21:08for the life of me
21:10or the life of my only child
21:12the answer to your question,
21:14what time is it?
21:15A comedic thriller
21:16of the highest order,
21:18no movie captures
21:19the singular blend of chaos,
21:21paranoia,
21:22and unfettered hope of 2025
21:23like one battle after another.
21:25Leonardo DiCaprio
21:26and Sean Penn
21:27lead a top-notch cast
21:29as an ex-revolutionary
21:30and the military man
21:31pursuing him
21:32and his daughter.
21:33Whoa, who's this?
21:34Who's that?
21:36Who is that?
21:37Oh, they're just my friends.
21:38And they just,
21:39they have a red car like that
21:41just driving a little loud,
21:43don't you think?
21:44It's just a car.
21:45And you told them
21:45they could do that?
21:46Yes.
21:47Thematically challenging
21:48and visually resplendent,
21:49it's also the first time
21:51in a while
21:51that Paul Thomas Anderson
21:52has set a film
21:53in the present day.
21:54But through his action-packed direction,
21:56phenomenal performances
21:57and the movie's precise alignment
21:59with the current political climate,
22:01one battle after another
22:02continues his streak
22:03as one of modern cinema's
22:04absolute best.
22:05It's the kind of movie
22:06destined to leave
22:07an indelible mark
22:08and could very well be
22:09the signature movie
22:10of the 2020s.
22:12You like black girls?
22:14I love them.
22:16I love them.
22:23Number two,
22:24Dune Part Two.
22:25For years,
22:27people said it was impossible
22:28to faithfully adapt
22:29Frank Herbert's
22:30groundbreaking sci-fi novel
22:31into a feature.
22:32They were right,
22:33which is why Denis Villeneuve
22:35split his version into two.
22:36Let me fight beside you.
22:38That's all I'm asking.
22:40While the first half
22:41was one of the most
22:42enthralling cinematic experiences
22:43of recent years,
22:45Dune Part Two
22:45is where the real meat
22:47of the story lies.
22:48It's also where Villeneuve
22:49improves upon the source material
22:51in some respects.
22:52You're following me.
22:54Am I?
22:57I may have gotten lost.
22:59Although he never strays
23:00from Herbert's original vision,
23:02Villeneuve makes it clearer
23:03than ever that Paul Treides
23:04isn't a conventional hero.
23:06That won't stop others
23:08from championing him
23:09as their leader,
23:10leaving us to question
23:11if the film's final note
23:12is one of triumph
23:13or impending disaster.
23:15You won't know at my feet.
23:16Your feet!
23:18You'll be lucky
23:19to keep your head.
23:20Either way,
23:21Dune Messiah
23:22cannot come soon enough.
23:23Maybe you could be Fretman.
23:28Maybe I'll show you the way.
23:30Before we unveil our top pick,
23:32here are some honorable mentions.
23:34Licorice Pizza.
23:35Paul Thomas Anderson
23:36returns to the San Fernando Valley
23:38for this nostalgic hangout movie.
23:40How long you guys been together?
23:43Me and Harry?
23:43Yeah.
23:45Oh, we're not together.
23:46We're not together.
23:47Why not?
23:48I don't know.
23:53I'm 20.
23:54What's that?
23:55I'm 25.
23:56Poor things.
23:57The second collaboration
23:58between Emma Stone
23:59and director Yorgos Lanthimos
24:01is one of a kind.
24:02Do you love me?
24:03I love you.
24:05Describe the elements
24:06I should be looking for
24:08within myself to be sure.
24:10You just feel it or not.
24:12So it is no evidence base,
24:14as God would say.
24:16So how judge it empirically?
24:18The Wild Robot,
24:19a new original DreamWorks animated movie
24:22that rivals some of their classics.
24:24You seem happy.
24:26The good people at Universal Dynamics
24:28have programmed us
24:29to put our targets at ease
24:31so as to more efficiently
24:32facilitate their collection.
24:34But don't worry.
24:35Despite my cheery demeanor,
24:37I am unfeeling,
24:39inflexible,
24:40and morally neutral.
24:41The Batman.
24:42Creating a Batman movie
24:44after the Dark Knight trilogy
24:45is no easy feat.
24:46Matt Reeves' take
24:47certainly delivered.
24:48The hell are you supposed to be?
25:02The Brutalist.
25:03A sprawling,
25:04larger-than-life epic
25:05that features
25:06Adrian Brody's best performance
25:08since The Pianist.
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25:43Number 1.
25:45Oppenheimer.
25:46Nils.
25:46P.J. Robert Oppenheimer.
25:48What's the J stand for?
25:50Nothing.
25:51And?
25:52You're at my lecture.
25:53You ask the only good question.
25:54From one half of
25:55Barbenheimer to another,
25:57Oppenheimer marks
25:58another tour de force
25:59from Christopher Nolan,
26:00delivering what might be
26:01his best-looking
26:02and best-sounding film to date.
26:04It's what's below the surface
26:05that sticks with us, however.
26:07Nolan accomplishes
26:08what few storytellers can,
26:10making a film
26:11about the atomic bomb
26:12where the creators,
26:13science,
26:14and moral complexities
26:15are just as engrossing
26:16as the explosion.
26:17We've all heard
26:18about Einstein
26:18and Sillard's letter
26:19to Roosevelt
26:20warning him
26:20the Germans
26:21could make a bomb
26:21and I know
26:22what it means
26:23for the Nazis
26:24to have a bomb.
26:25When I don't,
26:26it's not your people
26:27they're hurting into camps.
26:28Cillian Murphy
26:29obliterates his underrated status
26:31as J. Robert Oppenheimer
26:33whose determination
26:34to build the bomb
26:35sets off several
26:36additional explosions
26:37internally and politically.
26:38To discuss every performance
26:40would take longer
26:41than the movie itself.
26:42Destroyer of worlds?
26:44Debatable.
26:45Savior of the theatrical experience?
26:47Certainly.
26:48After the war,
26:49he was world-renowned,
26:51the great man of physics,
26:51and I was determined
26:53to get him
26:54to run the Institute.
26:56What's your favorite movie
26:57of the 2020s?
26:58Let us know in the comments.
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