10 Surprisingly Awesome 2020 Movies You Probably Missed

From its release history, you'd be forgiven for assuming that this sci-fi rom-com from Brian Duffield, who also happened to co-write Love and Monsters, was no good at all.

Filmed in early 2018 and left to fester on a studio shelf for almost three years, Spontaneous was finally released this past October, yet despite being one of the year's best-reviewed films, its release was largely buried by Paramount.

Spontaneous follows high-schoolers Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer), who are caught in the middle of a mysterious series of events where their fellow students begin randomly exploding like blood-filled balloons.

Despite the potential silliness of the setup, Spontaneous is a shockingly nuanced, character-driven film about two people finding love amid the most trying of circumstances.

Released in the middle of a global pandemic as it was, many have interpreted the film as an unintentional metaphor for current events, but whatever you assert the central phenomenon to be - the film smartly never explains it - the result is at once anxiously tense, hilarious, and sweetly romantic.

Sealing the deal is the remarkably authentic chemistry between Langford and Plummer, ensuring they're an impossibly easy-to-root-for couple.