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Based on a true story and a similarly named documentary, Dream Horse takes the sports formula and mostly throws it away for what makes its story unique, a small community banded together to work through its many problems with a dream horse.

It is pretty easy to categorize Wrath of Man as Ritchie doing Heat, putting it squarely into the post-Heat crime film genre that has really boomed the past few years.

Is it possible that we’ve already seen the best mainstream entertainment of the year?

The three movies I’ve seen back in the theaters so far are an interesting and coincidental mix: a big studio, big budget blockbuster, a low-grade action film, and a low-key comedy. None of these three kinds of films exactly went away in 2020, but they all have a different place in modern movie culture.