Promising Young Woman (2020)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

[8] Carey Mulligan (Shame, Never Let Me Go) is equal parts sympathetic and terrifying in writer/director Emerald Fennell's psychological thriller Promising Young Woman. Mulligan stars as Cassandra, a medical school dropout whose life was derailed after the sexual assault of…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in…
French Exit (2020)

French Exit (2020)

[4] Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges play a rich mother and son who are forced to leave their fancy New York home for a friend's apartment in Paris when they discover their bank account is nearly empty. Once there, Pfeiffer's…
Summer of 85 (2020)

Summer of 85 (2020)

[5] Director François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool) adapts a French young adult novel (Aiden Chambers' Dance on My Grave) about a sixteen-year-old boy who falls in love with a slightly older boy who rescues him when his sailboat capsizes…
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

[8] Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) plays Evelyn Wang, a laundromat owner taking care of her elderly father (James Hong), quarreling with her daughter (Stephanie Hsu), and teetering on divorce with her husband (Ke Huy Quan). To top things…
Mank (2020)

Mank (2020)

[7] Director David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac) makes a socio-political hero out of Herman J. Mankiewicz in this biopic that chronicles the boozy screenwriter's tribulations writing Citizen Kane. Gary Oldman plays 'Mank,' who we first meet laid up in bed…
Greenland (2020)

Greenland (2020)

[7] Gerard Butler (300) and Morena Maccarin (Firefly) star in this end-times thriller about a family trying to find shelter before a comet smashes into Earth. We've seen this plot play out in movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact, but…
I Care a Lot (2020)

I Care a Lot (2020)

[7] Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) gives a powerhouse performance as a ruthless, court-appointed legal guardian who preys upon her elderly wards, draining their savings and selling off their assets for her own financial gain. But she finally meets her match…
Underwater (2020)

Underwater (2020)

[7] After an earthquake devastates their facilities at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a handful of deep sea drillers decide their only chance of surviving is to walk along the ocean floor to another nearby facility miles away. But…
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

[5] Gal Gadot returns as Wonder Woman in Patty Jenkins' more fanciful sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. The muddled plot introduces a mysterious 'dreamstone' that grants one wish to whoever holds it. Gadot's Diana Prince wishes for the return of her…