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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. #12. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings isn't entirely free of Marvel's familiar formula, but this exciting origin story expands the MCU in more ways than one. Marvel Studios' "Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings" stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past...
- Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
- The Disciple
- The Green Knight
- A Hero
- Licorice Pizza
- Parallel Mothers
- The Power of The Dog
- Summer of Soul
- The Velvet Underground
- West Side Story
I love that, by alphabetical accident, this movie appears first on the list, because it was also one of the first 2021 films I saw, back in the pre-vaccine loneliness of that first COVID winter. Real-life best friends and co-screenwriters Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo star as a pair of nerdy Nebraska spinsters who decide to shake up their lives wit...
Chaitanya Tamhane’s quietly anguished character study of an aspiring master of Indian classical music (played by the astonishingly gifted Aditya Modak) might be thought of as Inside Llewyn Daviswith sitars. There aren’t many films about an artist’s obsessive dedication to his work that so precisely and unflinchingly pose the question that artists a...
David Lowery’s adaptation of a 14th-century Middle English poem is bewitchingly gorgeous, hauntingly eerie, and utterly itself. As the would-be Arthurian knight Gawain (Dev Patel) sets out on a quest to find and defeat the verdant monster of the title, Lowery takes the character and the audience on a trippy metaphysical journey that collapses the d...
The Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (About Elly, A Separation) works in a genre that might be called poetic social realism. This exquisitely written and acted film tells the story of a working-class father in Tehran who comes into possession of a lost purse full of cash during a two-day reprieve from debtor’s prison. A tender family drama that double...
Like the coward I am, I hesitated at first to place Paul Thomas Anderson’s lyrically written, radiantly acted, and thrillingly kinetic ninth feature on my list, despite the fact that watching it was among the most pleasurable movie experiences I had in a theater all year and one I can’t wait to repeat. I just didn’t want to get caught up in the Dis...
In his late career especially, the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has turned into a kind of cinematic Stendhal. Like that 19th-century French novelist, Almodóvar weaves domestic melodrama into a sweeping vision of his country’s political history. Parallel Mothers follows two single women who give birth in the same maternity ward on the same day,...
Everything about Jane Campion’s long-awaited eighth film has a majestic rightness to it: the awe-inspiring mountain landscapes (with the director’s native New Zealand standing in for the Montana frontier); the preternaturally astute performances of the central quartet of actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Jesse Plemo...
There were many impressive filmmaking debuts this year, several from artists best known for their work in other fields. The actors Rebecca Hall and Maggie Gyllenhaal both directed beautifully imagined first films (Passing and The Lost Daughter, respectively) that made me eager to see what they get up to next. But it was this joyful music documentar...
Todd Haynes’ first documentary combines the formal innovation of an auteur with the passion of a lifelong fan. Using ingeniously edited archival footage, clips from Andy Warhol’s avant-garde home movies, and interviews only with people who were present for the events described (not bloviating latter-day pundits), Haynes limits his focus to the shor...
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s ravishing update of the 1957 Broadway musical–turned—Oscar-winning-if-now-racially-unsettling 1961 movie is a demonstration of the magic that can happen when a skillfully wielded camera meets a skillfully wielded pen. I’ve seen this movie twice now, and I still have trouble coming up with a single choice I would ...
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So far, streaming continues to deliver the goods straight to the people while theaters have now reopened in earnest, and are delivering some big hits (Free Guy, Black Widow, and yes, Shang-Chi). Read on for the best movies of 2021, ranked by Tomatometer! (And check out the current best movies of 2022, or explore other years with our guides on ...
Streaming continued their dominant ascension with The Power of the Dog, Coda, and The Mitchells vs. the Machines all placing in the top 10 Best Movies overall of 2021. Outside of Pixar's Luca, streaming was the place to go for curious and adventurous viewers with documentaries filling up the rest of the list, whose topics range from classic ...
Dec 15, 2021 · 15. Pig. In this odd and always surprising dead-quiet drama, Nicolas Cage plays Rob, a gruff loner who lives in a cabin in the Oregon woods with his truffle-hunting pig. He spends his days in ...
Dec 21, 2021 · The Green Knight. Dev Patel gives us a new kind of Arthurian legend via writer-director David Lowery (Miss Juneteenth). Patel stars as Sir Gawain, the intractable nephew of King Arthur, who is ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · No Sudden Move. HBO Max. No Sudden Move is the latest film crime film by master of the genre Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Logan Lucky). This caper film set in 1954 Detroit about a ...
