Dear reader,
I think everyone has had quite enough of this awards season – ironically, the years with the best cinema often tend to be both the most boring and the most contentious. I remember the "Nomadland" year being a lot like that.
Despite this, it is customary for those of us who cover the circuit to exorcise it from our psyche via a ranked list, so as to properly and definitively bring the previous year of cinema to order in our minds. It’s a ritual. It’s SEO-approved. It’s also paywalled.
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