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Dec 27, 2021 · What you’ll find are nearly two dozen performances that represent the range of great performances in 2021. There are legends like Nicolas Cage and Olivia Colman next to rising talents like Mike Faist and Taylour Paige. There’s even a pop legend.
Dec 8, 2021 · The 27 Best Film and TV Performances of 2021. From the dramatic to the comic, these actors broadened the boundaries of what a great performance means on screens big and small. By Ryan...
Dec 20, 2021 · From viral stars to film festival sensations, these are (some) of the performances that made 2021 a joy to watch.
Dec 21, 2021 · Tessa Thompson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicolas Cage, and more highlight our list of the best film performances of 2021.
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- Ben Affleck, The Last Duel. In a year full of stellar turns — Benedict Cumberbatch, please report to the podium — some are bound to fall through the cracks.
- Patti Harrison, Together Together. Guy meets girl, guy hires girl to become his baby-mama surrogate: so far, so modern rom-com. But as the twentysomething barista who agrees to be Ed Helms' womb for hire, Patti Harrison (Shrill, Search Party) finds the finer shades of a fiercely guarded character who would sooner offer up her uterus than her heart.
- Riley Keogh and Taylour Paige, Zola. Sometimes it seems like casts don't even do chemistry reads anymore. But there's a whole periodic table sizzling between Keough and Paige as strippers whose initial spark of friendship in a diner leads them down a Florida road-trip rabbit hole so depraved it makes Fear and Loathing feel like Pixar.
- Nicolas Cage, Pig. It's easy to forget that Cage, whose IMDb page has tilted more toward quantity than quality in the last decade or two, is capable of small, wonderful surprises like Pig, in which he plays an exiled Oregon chef forced to join the world again when his beloved truffle pig is stolen by poachers.
Dec 14, 2021 · From Ruth Negga's soulful, searing performance in 'Passing' to Daniel Craig's Bond farewell.
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Dec 18, 2021 · From one of the best performances in a horror film in years to more awards-friendly acting that's courting plenty of Oscar hype, and career-best turns that came totally out of nowhere,...
