I’m a sucker for Joel Edgerton movies. I’ll give any movie that he’s in a chance. I first learned of him when I saw the vastly underrated Warrior. This film follows a fairly predictable sports-drama formula. Still, for me, it was elevated to a Top 100 all-time movie by the performances of Edgerton, Tom Hardy, and Nick Nolte. Edgerton continued to impress with The Gift, a film that he both starred in and directed. Since then, he’s had memorable performances in movies that critics received well, but didn’t do well at the box office. Loving, Midnight Special, The Green Knight, It Comes At Night, and Boy Erased all earned Rotten Tomatoes critics’ scores of >80% fresh, yet each failed to reach $20 million at the box office. While I didn’t particularly care for any of those five movies, Edgerton continued to impress.
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Minari (2020)
Suffering from similar fates as other 2020 films such as News of the World, Land, and Nomadland is Lee Isaac Chung’s breakthrough Minari. This movie tells a familiar story in a way that is unique but ultimately ineffective. I say that tongue-in-cheek because my favorite film of the year (at the time of this post) is News of the World, which fails to escape many of the traps these other three movies fall into. And that’s not even to say that News of the World is a great film. It’s a very good film that earned quite an affinity in a reasonably drab 2020.