“Palm Springs,” “Soul” and “Da 5 Bloods” were among the top winners at Sunday night’s Critics Choice Super Awards, a curious awards show that was launched during a year in which the kind of movies it exists to celebrate were largely absent from screens.
The awards were created by the Critics Choice Association to honor action, horror, sci-fi, superhero, comic-book and animated movies — the commercial genres whose films were largely taken off the release schedule when COVID-19 restrictions caused the closure of movie theaters. As a result, the Best Action Movie category was won by Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” in which the action sequences are peripheral at best; and the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie award went to “Palm Springs,” a “Groundhog Day”-style comedy whose time-loop premise was enough to qualify it in the category.