The 10 best movies
Dec 04, 2020
3 minutes
BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK W. OCKENFELS 3
1 FIRST COW
KELLY REICHARDT
In the verdant Pacific Northwest of the 1820s, two settlers—a baker and a Chinese immigrant with an entrepreneurial streak—start a business selling fried cakes made with the purloined milk of a local cow. The enterprise takes off, as their friendship deepens. Both tranquil and dazzling, First Cow is a song of this weird, rough-edged stretch of stolen land we call America, a place where tenderness is still the most precious commodity.
2 COLLECTIVE
ALEXANDER NANAU
which follows a
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