21. Tenet
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John David Washington, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine
Plot: An unnamed CIA operative dubbed The Protagonist finds himself recruited into the mysterious organization known as Tenet. Operating outside of the constraints of time itself, their goal is to stop Andrei Sator, a Russian oligarch with precognition abilities whose aim is to start World War III. Utilizing the art of "time inversion" Tenet will stop at nothing to counter this threat.
22. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George C. Wolfe
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Taylour Paige
Plot: Chicago, 1927, arriving late, the trailblazing, legendary "Mother of the Blues", Ma Rainey, finds herself in a battle of wills against her white manager and producer over the control of her music. Meanwhile, in the claustrophobic rehearsal room another drama plays out as ambitious trumpeter Levee, who has his own ideas for the music industry, engages with his fellow musicians - spurring them on to reveal secret stories that will alter their lives forever.
23. Minari
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Actors: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Yuh-Jung Youn, Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho, Will Patton
24. Weathering with You ( Tenki no ko )
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu, Chieko Baishô, Ryô Narita
25. Swallow
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Actors: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, Luna Lauren Velez
26. My Octopus Teacher
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Actors: Craig Foster, Tom Foster
27. Platform, The ( hoyo, El )
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Actors: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay, Mario Pardo
28. First Cow
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Alia Shawkat, Scott Shepherd, Toby Jones, Rene Auberjonois, John Magaro, Ewen Bremner
Plot: A loner cook finds his path taking him far to the west where he falls in with a group of fur trappers in the Oregon Territory. The only person he finds himself making any meaningful connection with is a Chinese immigrant. The two men decide to run a business together - but the entire operation hinges on a wealthy landowner allowing them access to a prized milking cow.
29. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Toni Collette, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Jason Ralph
30. Possessor
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Actors: Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland
Plot: Tasya Vos is special kind of corporate agent - one who uses technology to inhabit other people's bodies, take over their minds and use them for assassinations to benefit the company. But time and stress has taken a toll and her mental state is in flux and when she inhabits the body of a particularly strong-willed individual, it threatens to erase her instead.
