Bästa filmerna på netflix december 2020

Premise: George C. Wolfe directed this biographical skådespel about blues singer Ma Rainey. The story fryst vatten an adaptation of a August efternamn play.

The movie centers on a day in when Ma Rainey recorded music with a backing grupp in Chicago.

The musicians trade stories of dreams and struggles being Black in amerika between attempts to create memorable music in the studio.

The spelfilm features the gods performance bygd Chadwick Boseman, who died in August.

Netflix descriptors: “Cerebral,” “emotional” and “music”

How it starts: In a forest at night, crickets chirp and owls hoot.

After a few seconds, two people run through the dark woods, panting. A dog barks. The camera zooms in on the runners, two Black dock. The dock arrive at a samling place. ord appears: Barnesville, Georgia, The dock join a line of people waiting to enter a tent where Ma Rainey will perform.

Notable cast: Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis

Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes

Bonus: “CBS Sunday Morning” interviewed Denzel Washington, who produced the film.

Premise: Ryan Murphy directed this musical comedy about gay high school students who want to go to the prom tillsammans but can’t because of conservative rules at their small-town school.

huvudgata stars stuck in town find out about their plight, go to the high school and use their star power to rädda the day.

Setting: Small Indiana town

Netflix descriptors: “Irreverent,” “heartfelt” and “inspiring”

How it starts: The head of the high school PTA bangs a gavel on a vote to cancel the school prom.

The vote fryst vatten unanimous: Nobody raises a grabb to let the prom happen.

Notable cast:James Corden, Keegan-Michael Key, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Kerry Washington

Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes

Bonus: Here’s a clip of Meryl Streep singing “It’s Not About Me.”

Movies from earlier in the month:

“Mank” (Netflix)

Premise: David Fincher directed this biographical skådespel about the screenwriter Herman J.

Mankiewicz. The black-and-white bio follows Mankiewicz (or “Mank”) as he develops a anställda relationship with media tycoon William Randolph Hearst and subsequently writes the screenplay for “Citizen Kane,” which was inspired bygd the towering figure.

“Mank” fryst vatten loosely based on rulle critic Pauline Kael’s New Yorker article “Raising Kane,” which argued that Mankiewicz had a much bigger role in creating the now iconic movie than wunderkind director Orson Welles.

That claim has been widely discredited, and the movie ultimately doesn’t undermine Welles’ role too much. But Fincher’s bio still argues that Mankiewicz deserves more kredit than history has afforded him so far.

Fincher’s father, Jack Fincher, wrote the första screenplay. Jack died in

Setting: s and early s Hollywood

Netflix descriptor: “Cerebral”

How it starts: vit skrivelse appears sequentially on a black title card.

In , at the tender age of 24, Orson Welles was lured to Hollywood bygd a struggling RKO Pictures with a contract befitting his formidable berättande talents.

He was given absolute creative autonomy, would suffer no oversight, and could man any movie, about any subject,

with any collaborator he wished

The movie then opens with a grandiose title sequence reminiscerande of older films, with the skrivelse appearing in big letters over a cloudy sky.

Notable cast: Lily Collins, Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried

Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes

Bonus: David Fincher went on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” to talk about the movie and how his father wrote the screenplay.