On Dec 8 (local time), Variety released the list of ŌĆ£The Best Films of 2020.ŌĆØ For the list, Chief Film Critics for Variety Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman each selected 10 films. And Minari has been named in Owen GleibermanŌĆÖs Top 10 list. Owen Gleiberman introduced the film, ŌĆ£In America, the moment we hear the word immigrant, we tend to get a lot of images in our heads, a lot of which are clich├®s. But Lee Isaac ChungŌĆÖs lyrically transporting family drama takes you inside the immigrant experience with a humanity so forthright yet offbeat that it stirs you and wakes you up at the same time.ŌĆØ He also praised the director, saying, ŌĆ£Chung has a complex sense of family dynamics; we never feel, as we might in the Hollywood version of this story, that life is easier than it is.ŌĆØ The rest of the list includes The Prom, Sorry We Missed You, Antebellum, Mangrove, Soul and more. Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. Steven Yeun, Han Ye Ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh Jung, and Will Patton starred in the film. With this film, Youn Yuh Jung won the Best Supporting Actress at the 2020 Sunset Circle Awards. Earlier, Variety named Minari as one of their ŌĆ£Oscars PredictionsŌĆØ for the Best Picture award and cited Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh Jung and Han Ye Ri as dark horses. Source (1, 2)
