2020 saw a significant increase in the number of movies watched and the number of movies re-watched.
2020 SUMMARY
New films watched during 2020: 290 films. Average percentile: 53.
Masterpieces (scores between 91 and 100) watched in 2020: 1 new film. Poem (1972).
Percentile between 90 and 99 watched in 2020: 21 films (but now includes scores of 80), including Prometheus (1998), The World of Apu (1959), Bellissima (1951), The Forest of Love: Deep Cut (2020) and Near Death (1989).
Percentile between 80 and 89 in 2020: 29 films.
Lowest scoring films watched in 2020: A score of 20: Violent Virgin (1969), Under the Silver Lake (2018), The Midnight Sky (2020). A score of 15: Aerials (2016).
First and last films watched in 2020: first was Season of Terror (1969); last was The Unliving (2010).
Seen at the theatre in 2020: 0 films.
2020 films watched: 23 films. Highest score was for The Forest of Love: Deep Cut, with a score of 84, followed by I’m Thinking of Ending Things with a score of 72. The lowest score for a 2020 movie was received by The Midnight Sky (20).
Re-watched in 2020: 61 films. Among them: Edvard Munch, leading to an increased score from 94 to 97, putting it in my all-time top twenty.
Relationship between scores and percentiles at end of 2020:
Watched for the first time: 98 Re-Watches: 21
2020 Films Watched (so far): 10 Best Film of 2020 so far:Hamilton Worst Film of 2020 so far:The Prom
# of Movies watched in Theatres: 2 (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and 1917, both way back in last January )
New Films Watched In My 90-99 Percentile: 6 Total - Rashomon (1950), An American in Paris (1951), Tongues Untied (1989), Hamilton (2020), Gravity (2013), Ikiru (1952)
Rewatches in 90-99 Percentile:3 Total - Singin' in The Rain (1952), The Dark Knight (2008), Citizen Kane (1942)
New Films Watched in My 1-10 Percentile: 11 Total - Life Itself (2018), The Book of Henry (2017), The Shack (2017), The Hangover (2009), The Fast and the Furious (2001), Police Academy (1984), White Chicks (2004), The Cat From Outer Space (1978), The Cat Returns (2002), The Grinch (2018)
First and Last films watched: First was Little Shop of Horrors (1986), last was The Golden Coach (1952)
Mean Year Watched: 1993 Median Year Watched: 2001 Most Watched Year: 2020
Most famous film I watched for the first time this year:Interstellar (2014) Most Obscure Film:Bobby (1973)
(These are based off # of rankings but is also somewhat subjective)
Longest film I watched this year: Jodhaa Akbar (2008) (3 hours, 34 minutes)