With 2020 finally coming to a close, The Playlist Podcast adds one more Best Of list to the pile. Well, not so much a Best Of, but instead, Charles, Mike, and Brian talk about the only list that “New Mutants” might find itself on this year, the Most Disappointing Films of 2020.

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One of contemporary cinema’s great moments in tone-deaf screenwriting unfolds in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” when Keira Knightley gives a rousing speech about free men fighting for freedom to a pirate crew. Pirates, for those in need of a history lesson, generally exercised their freedom with murder, rape, and theft, so yes, free men they might be, but they’re also scumbags, something that the movie and its authors never consider.

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June isn’t off to a particularly great start, following the already awful events of the rest of the year so far, but if there’s anything to look forward to it’s some terrific films scheduled for release this month.

From the latest films by Spike Lee and Josephine Decker to festival favorites that built buzz in the last year, there’s plenty to engage in. Things are far from “back to normal” as it pertains to theater-going (and likely won’t be getting there anytime soon,) but if we’re looking to seek out comfort in art, it’s comforting to know that the quality of the films being released isn’t diminishing – far from it.

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When will the US government really fight back against the threat of terrorism and crime? Sure, police and law enforcement officials do their best, but in the new film “The Last Days of American Crime,” the government has figured out a way to stop all crime and it leads to some pretty insane results.

As seen in the trailer for “The Last Days of American Crime,” the film follows the story of an alternate future where the government sends out a massive signal that makes it impossible for any citizen to knowingly commit a crime.

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