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Best Films of 2020: Uncut Gems, Mank, The Lighthouse

Feature: Counteract’s 30 best films of 2020

December 29, 2020December 30, 2020 Blaise Radley 1917, A White, Da 5 Bloods, Dark Waters, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Ema, His House, Krabi 2562, Le Kiosque, Lovers Rock, Lynn + Lucy, Mangrove, Mank, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Residue, Rocks, Saint Maud, Shirley, Sound of Metal, Tenet, The Assistant, The Lighthouse, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Wild Goose Lake, Trial of the Chicago 7, True History of the Kelly Gang, Uncut Gems, White Day

It’s been a bad year for cinemas, but a good year for films. Explore 30 of the best films of 2020 here with Counteract.

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Feature: The BAFTAs 2020 were an uninspiring celebration of exclusion

February 3, 2020 Matthew Floyd 1917, BAFTAs, Brad Pitt, Graham Norton, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Laura Dern, Margot Robbie, Sam Mendes, Scarlett Johansson

Amidst controversy over its hegemony of established white male stars, the BAFTAs 2020 very much stuck to the script.

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Film review: 1917 strips back the history for a sensory spectacular

January 22, 2020January 27, 2020 Matthew Floyd 1917, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Richard Madden, Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes spins a thrilling men-on-a-mission yarn with 1917, an epic WWI journey that transcends its “one-take” tagline.