The Best Movies of 2020 (So Far)

Most of these you can stream from home right now. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The Best $40 You'll Spend All Year: Esquire Select   Hello, friends. Esquire Select is the new membership program for Esquire readers, created and curated by the magazine's editors. For just $40 a year, you get unlimited access to Esquire.com—including our award-winning journalism and political commentary—a print subscription, members-only discounts from brands we love, and more. Join today to never miss a story. Read More           These Are the Best Movies of 2020 (So Far)   The fall is upon us, and even with the pandemic thwarting most theatrical release plans, the next few months are certain to be packed with award-worthy films. That said, moviegoers have already been blessed with great recent offerings, including two features—Kirsten Johnson's Dick Johnson is Dead and Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things—that stand as the finest of the year to date. The fact that both of those stellar efforts premiered on Netflix proves that, even in our current coronavirus-wracked era, streaming platforms are delivering the cinematic goods. And with more big-ticket titles on the way (including The Trial of the Chicago 7), there's good reason to think that'll continue. At present, though, these are our picks for the best of 2020. Read More           Dickies' $35 Double-Knee Work Pants Represent the Brand at Its Best   Dickies' double-knee work pants are some of the toughest out there. (You might say, in fact, that they're the quintessential hard pants.) And if you, too, are feeling sick and tired of swaddling your weary gams in the same pair of heavily-stained terry cloth trousers, these are the durable bad boys to finally help you kick your sweatpants habit for good. Sure, you could easily spend a few days surfing the web for a near-identical pair of pants done up in the fanciest of fabrics by the designer-iest of designers. But when Dickies is still setting the standard, even after all these years, you'd be doing yourself a grave disservice. Esquire's Avidan Grossman explains why the pants earned a spot as our latest Esquire Endorsement. Read More           Timex's Latest Affordable Automatic Is a Vintage Watch Lover's Dream Come True   Timex just launched its M79 automatic watch in a black-on-black colorway—debuting exclusively here at Esquire—and, well, holy shit. We're excited. So let's talk about a very good watch, shall we?The M79 isn't a brand-new player, though it did only launch earlier this year. Way back when (in February) it hit the scene sporting the "Batman" colors of black and blue. Appealing, no doubt—and helped along mightily by a 21-jewel automatic movement and a vintage-inspired borrowed from its sibling and predecessor, the runaway-hit Q Timex. The mechanical M79 is a little bigger than its quartz-driven counterpart at 40mm versus 38mm, but the feel, with its acrylic crystal and woven stainless-steel strap, is rooted in that vintage appeal. (Yes, the "79" in the name is a stand-in for "1979." Guess what the "M" stands for.) The best part? It's less than three hundred bucks. Read More           Nancy Pelosi's 25th Amendment Talk Isn't About the Election, It's About the Lame Duck   The Speaker of the House held a press conference on Friday morning at which she discussed fine-tuning the mechanism by which the President* of the United States may be judged unfit for office, or incapable of discharging his duties, and thereby removed from office. On a normal day in normal times, this would be reckoned to be a serious matter. This, of course, is all about the current president*, who at the moment is one helicopter video away from one of those shirtless local-news videos that ensue after a high-speed car chase. Make no mistake. This was a shot across the administration's bow, not so much for the moment, but for the interregnum period between the election and the inauguration, when the president* will still be president*, win or lose. The bill she proposed will pass the House and then die in the Senate, but that's not the point. If the president* decides to pull the temple down on his own head, the Speaker is now on record as considering a constitutional solution to that problem. Charles P. Pierce paints the whole picture, here. Read More           Here's One Thing You Can't Ignore About Amy Coney Barrett   There is naturally considerable dread and general agita over Judge Amy Coney Barrett's plans for both Roe v. Wade and the Affordable Care Act, so we suspect that questions on those two topics are likely to dominate her confirmation hearings next week. And certainly, those are issues worth exploring but, thanks to NBC News, we learn that the nominee is also faithful to the most basic longtime requirement for conservative Republican judges— fealty to the money power and the corporate class. Sure, John Roberts is bughouse on voting rights, and Sam Alito believes in civil liberties only for his immediate family. They all have their peculiar enthusiasms and, sometimes, they even argue with each other on that basis and, out of those arguments, occasionally, a halfway human decision emerges. But the one thing on which they all agree is rolling back most regulations on American business. Next week should be illuminating. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019