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TOTAL FILM • What’s your movie of 2020? Tell us @totalfilm #TFbestof2020

WELCOME TO TOTAL FILM THE SMARTER MOVIES MAGAZINE

CALL SHEET • THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS

TOTAL FILM WINGMAN • TF’S CINEMATIC AGONY UNCLE HAS YOUR BACK.

Dialogue • Mail, rants, theories etc.

IT’S A WANDA-FUL LIFE • WANDAVISION I Do not adjust your set. Scarlet Witch is back…

OSCAR ISAAC • HAS THE MOON IN HIS SIGHTS…

KILLER INSTINCT • NOBODY | Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk swaps legal briefs for bullets.

MIXED DRAG • EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE | Director Jonathan Butterell on his stage musical’s makeover.

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? • Film quotes pose as questions. Film stars try to cope.

LABOUR OF LOVE • PIECES OF A WOMAN | Kornél Mundruczó’s intimate birth drama delivers…

SYSTEM SMASHER • THE WHITE TIGER | A servant strikes back in the Indian answer to Parasite.

Q&A PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS

STAR WARS’ COMEBACK YEAR • The Force is strong again… but there’s work to be done.

LOST MEMORIES • THE FATHER | Florian Zeller’s celebrated stage play is ready for its close-up.

SOUND BYTES • Quotable dialogue from this month’s movies – and their stars

MAKING HISTORY • THE DIG | Unearthing the secrets of a classy period drama with a cast of gems…

IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST • Editor-at-Large JAMIE GRAHAM lifts the lid on film journalism.

OLIVER’S ARMY • TWIST | Charles Dickens’classic tale gets a modern-day, er, twist…

Q&A RITA ORA

YOUTH IN REVOLT • ECHO BOOMERS | Millennials take a baseball bat to the system in Seth Savoy’s Insta-heist thriller.

NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU • The Silencing and Game Of Thrones star on Black Hawks and severed hands.

KILLER QUEEN • THE WARRIOR QUEEN OF JHANSI | India’s Joan of Arc gets a myth-busting biopic.

Q&A DEVIKA BHISE

UP IN THE AIR • HORIZON LINE | Pilot dead? Fuel running out? Nervous fliers need not apply…

Q&A ALLISON WILLIAMS

SALLY HAWKINS • National treasure on gongs, Godzilla and fish gods…

Review of the Year

on trend • The themes that have defined this year’s movies…

The curse of the Total Film cover? • With the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on the 2020 release schedule, we started to wonder if it was something we did? Total Film assesses the damage…

The Wright stuff • Writing exclusively for Total Film, ace director Edgar Wright explains how he used lockdown to fill in the gaps in his cinematic viewing.

Woman Of The Year Anya Taylor-Joy • On The Queen’s Gambit and her incredible 2021 slate…

Comeback of the year Adam Sandler

In Memoriam

Rising stars • The breakout performers of 2020…

honourable mentions

Grey areas • Mank maestro David Fincher on the frustrations of filmmaking.

getting 2020’s digits In numbers

Unbelievable scenes • The year’s standout set-pieces.

Man of the year Sacha Baron Cohen • On using art to help a mirror up to 2020 society…

Honourable mentions

Bubble & trouble • Ben Wheatley on finding creativity in the time of covid by returing to...