In some ways, it feels very silly to do this annual look at the best of the first quarter of the cinematic year. After all, the world has changed and the film world especially has come to a screeching halt. At the same time , a sense of normalcy however possible is always good. So, I’m pressing on and listing my favorite titles and work from the first three months of 2020. Obviously, a lot of high profile flicks were delayed, so whether I saw them or not, I’m not including them here. Still, including things I saw late in 2019 but hit this year, I had over 90 options to pull from. So, hopefully this is a Farley exhaustive list, even if it’s very much skewed by my personal taste. Let’s get right down to it. Below you’ll find my top ten of the year so far, along with my awards for the first quarter of 2020. Here you go folks, and enjoy: 10. Come As You Are 9. All the Bright Places 8. Miss Americana 7. Onward 6. Hooking Up 5. Banana Split 4. The Invisible Man 3. Buffaloed 2. The Way Back 1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always Honorable Mentions: The Assistant, Bacurau, Big Time Adolescence, Birds of Prey, The Hunt, Impractical Jokers: The Movie, Premature, Vivarium, The Whistlers, and Zombi Child Here also are my top ten performances of the year so far: 10. Anthony Mackie in The Banker 9. Sam Richardson in Hooking Up 8. Hannah Marks in Banana Split 7. Brittany Snow in Hooking Up 6. Julia Garner in The Assistant 5. Jesse Eisenberg in Resistance 4. Zoey Deutch in Buffaloed 3. Elisabeth Moss in The Invisible Man 2. Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always 1. Ben Affleck in The Way Back Honorable Mention: Billy Crystal (Standing Up, Falling Down), Elle Fanning (All The Bright Places), Judy Greer (Buffaloed), Aldis Hodge (The Invisible Man), Zora Howard (Premature), Samuel L. Jackson (The Banker), Liana Liberato (Banana Split), Zoe Kazan (The Kindness of Strangers), Al Madrigal (The Way Back), Imogen Poots (Vivarium), Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), and Justice Smith (All The Bright Places) Most Underrated: Buffaloed and Hooking Up Most Overrated: Sorry We Missed You and Swallow As you might have guessed, my number one pick above would be my choice for Best Picture so far (with number two the runner up, and so […]