#2016 best hollywood movies so far professional#
Writer-director Kitty Green’s economical film The Assistant masterfully represents the insidious mistreatment, dehumanization, and exploitation to which women are subjected in professional settings. But the more Frank treads water, the more his carefully-crafted, high-flying lifestyle begins to fall apart. Jackman plays Frank Tassone, the beloved, genuinely-devoted school official who leads a spellbinding cover-up when his second-in-command Pam Gluckin (Alison Janney, right on the money in her portrayal of a tough Long Island mom) is caught spending taxpayer money to make personal purchases.
Hugh Jackman and Alison Janney star in this film, directed by Cory Finley, based on the Roslyn High School embezzlement scandal of 2002, in which a Long Island school superintendent and members of his staff were revealed to have embezzled $11.2 million million from the district’s coffers over a period of several years. But as they attempt to conceal the crime, hoping friendly police officers and nosy neighbors do not suspect anything too fishy, they become drawn into their town’s dark underbelly, which turns out to be surprisingly matriarchal. Shortly after the death of their beloved mother, they wind up having to cover up the terrible murder of a would-be assaulter. It’s about two sisters (Sophie Lowe and Morgan Saylor) from a small, coastal New England fishing town. I loved this frosty, bloody, bone-chilling indie film, written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. Wishing you all a wonderful, and cinematic, start to 2021. Until then! In the meantime, please stay sanitized, distanced, and safe. This is my last piece as a staff writer I’m gratified to say that I’ll be returning in January as an editor.
#2016 best hollywood movies so far how to#
I didn’t know how to maneuver my criteria enough so as to get Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow on this list, but please just know that I loved it and you should watch it.Īs with all of our best of year content, this list is not ranked.Īll of these films are available to stream, and we’ve included those details below each listing, to help you build a marathon that will end this terrible year on, at least, an entertaining note. I normally don’t consider “war” films crime films, but I’m counting Da 5 Bloods because it’s a crime-y treasure hunt sent against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. And, as usual, “crime” is defined rather broadly, to include all illegal activity from theft, to murder, to cons, to gangster shenanigans, to on-the-lam stories. This list considers international films as well as domestic ones. Here are the rules for our selection: all films considered all had to be full-length feature films, released (in theaters or on streaming services) in the United States during the 2020 calendar year. But many expected box-office moneymakers, like the upcoming Bond film No Time to Die, were pushed to open next year instead, while others, like the long-awaited Tenet, stuck it out. Eventually, during the COVID crisis, theaters outside of New York City (where I live, grumble grumble) managed to compensate, holding drive-in and other creative screenings to safely bring audiences releases on the big screen. If you didn’t head to a theater in January or February (perhaps to watch, at the last minute, an Oscar contender) then there’s a chance you didn’t get to go at all. For obvious reasons, we didn’t go to the movies that much, this past year.