What matters is how they engage with each other before Kasulke’s lens (manned by Darin Moran). Whoever Marks and Liberato are when they’re not on a movie set is irrelevant. Nothing they do feels forced, or artificial. Watching Marks and Liberato together on screen is a genuine joy to behold they’re apparently close off screen, which helps, but even with the camera presiding over their chemistry, they’re unfailingly natural. They come together not over common interests but a common boy. Working off of a script written by Hannah Marks and Joey Power, director Benjamin Kasulke finds a delicate balance between sweet and sour in Banana Split, a teen rom-com with less emphasis on the “rom,” enough on the “com,” and greater emphasis on complicated friendships between its leads, April (Marks) and Clara (Liana Liberato). Here are our picks for the 50 best movies of the year: Until then, we can always debate 2020 movie rankings. While movies will only bounce back as the world recovers, here’s hoping that this increased sense of curiosity and spirit of charity towards independent venues and filmmakers continues on even when we’re all crunched back into a theater, elbow to elbow, spilling Raisinets and sharing popcorn. That doesn’t mean the odd AAA feature didn’t find its way into our top 50- Tenet and Soul are still impressive achievements-but like the rest of the world, we were watching smaller movies this year. We always tend to favor scrappy indies and underappreciated gems, and 2020 gave us a bounty. Paste’s best movies list reflects this, to an extent. The playing field didn’t exactly become egalitarian, but the likelihood that you’d take a gamble on something out of your comfort zone only went up when that comfort zone was mostly inaccessible. Documentaries, international films, little indies-if it would otherwise be overrun by blockbusters and big IP during a normal year, 2020 gave it its own little spotlight simply because it was something new. But the year that left box offices thirsty for a little Marvel libation, gave Christopher Nolan his heel turn and dropped a Wonder Woman sequel on streaming for everyone to hate-watch over the holiday had its bright spots.įor one, being stuck at home meant people got to see a lot more-and what they saw was a lot more diverse. And, as shown by Warner Bros.’ HBO Max gamble, it’s already affecting the future of the cinematic experience. But everyone knows it: The coronavirus completely changed how we watched movies this year.
Sure, Birds of Prey and Dolittle played at the beginning of the year and if you don’t happen to live in the U.S., the chance that you could go down to the multiplex without contracting a deadly virus was, if not high, then at least higher than if you were stateside. 2020 was, basically, a year without movie theaters.
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