Category: Movies

As usual, I haven’t been able to see/listen to everything I’d like, but here are my top picks this year across movies, TV (a longer list as it’s the dominant force of the era) and podcasts…

Movies:

• The Whale
• Tár
• Armageddon Time
• The Fabelmans
• Nope

TV:

• Severance
• Better Call Saul
• Ozark
• The White Lotus
• Andor
• Interview With The Vampire
• The Bear
• The Dropout
• House of The Dragon
• The Rehearsal

Podcasts:

• Hard Fork
• Crypto Island
• Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
• Sounds Like a Cult
• Twin Flames

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As usual, I haven’t been able to see/listen to everything I’d like (👀 Licorice Pizza), but here are my top picks this year across movies, TV and podcasts (TV getting double the amount due to the pandemic of it all)…

Movies:

• The Power of The Dog
• The French Dispatch
• Dune
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• No Time To Die

TV:

• The White Lotus
• Succession
• The Beatles: Get Back
• Dopesick
• Midnight Mass
• Mare of Easttown
• Yellowjackets
• Scenes From a Marriage
• The Shrink Next Door
• Squid Game

Podcasts:

• Hooked
• Operator
• One Year: 1995
• In God We Lust
• Dithering

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Man, what a year to try and pick out “best” stuff, especially on the movies side (though we still have Wonder Woman 1984 coming on Christmas Day!).

That said, here are my favorites from the year. The TV list is twice as long, because 2020…

Podcasts:

• California King
• Dithering
• Rabbit Hole
• Slow Burn: David Duke
• Kottke Ride Home

Movies:

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things
• Da 5 Bloods
• Class Action Park
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Bad Education

TV:

• How To With John Wilson
• Ozark
• Unorthodox
• The Great
• We Are Who We Are
• The Boys
• The Last Dance
• The Queen’s Gambit
• Tales From The Loop
• The Good Lord Bird