Best of 2020

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2020

As Martin Scorsese once said, "Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there's a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when ...

The Best Undistributed Films of 2020

After highlighting the most overlooked films of 2020, today we're putting a spotlight on the films that need a home to be seen in the first place: the 40 or so...

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2020

For our most comprehensive year-end feature we're providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage's favorite films of 2020. We've asked contributors to comp...

The Most Overlooked Films of 2020

In a year marked by a stagnant box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute? While there ...

The Best Performances of 2020

Our year-end coverage continues with a look at the best performances of the year. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead or by gender, we've wri...

The Best Movie Posters of 2020

It's funny to think that streaming services like Netflix didn't bother creating posters for their original work a few years back knowing they'd never have to c...

The Best Cinematography of 2020

"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark...

The Best Documentaries of 2020

A harrowing look at the epicenter of the pandemic, moving stories for the fight for justice, journies into animal worlds, unpacking the intricacies of bureaucr...