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4 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Before fully diving into 2021 I'm gonna do this thing again where I recap some of the movies I liked or loved in 2020.

I watched 179 movies (had a lot of time to spend indoors.) My favorite new releases of the year were Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and The Vast Of Night.
Some movies I had never seen before that I liked/loved: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Shazam (2019), The Swimmer (1968), Under the Silver Lake (2018), I See You (2019), Sorry To Bother You (2018), Leave No Trace (2018), The Howling (1981), Contagion (2011)...
Sleuth (1972), Shin Godzilla (2016), Blow The Man Down (2019), Sneakers (1992), Bloodsport (1988), High And Low (1963), The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Sudden Death (1995), Prospect (2018), Tokyo Drifter (1966), The Trip To Greece (2000), The Addams Family Values (1993)...
Animal Kingdom (2010), Boys State (2020), The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020), Haywire (2011), The Anderson Tapes (1971), Magic Mike XXL (2015), House of Games (1987), Odd Man Out (1947), Black Bear (2020), Host (2020), The Wind Rises (2013), Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
I don't know if most people would qualify it as a movie but the short-run animated series Over The Garden Wall was maybe the best thing I watched all year.

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