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The Best Movies of 2021, Ranked by Tomatometer. Rotten Tomatoes is collecting every new Certified Fresh movie into one list, creating our guide to the best movies of 2021. Among them you’ll...
Best Movies 2021. The Best Movies category awards the best-reviewed film regardless of their release, whether they went straight to streaming or swung onto the silver screen....
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- Quo Vadis, Aida? - Director: Jasmila Žbanić. - Metascore: 97. - Runtime: 101 minutes. This Oscar-nominated Bosnian war drama takes place in 1995 and opens on the brink of a Serbian takeover.
- Summer of Soul. - Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. - Metascore: 96. - Runtime: 117 minutes. Music icon Questlove directs this uplifting documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, which spanned six weeks of summer.
- Rocks. - Director: Sarah Gavron. - Metascore: 96. - Runtime: 93 minutes. Bukky Bakray delivers a breakout performance as 15-year-old Olushola “Rocks” Omotoso in this British coming-of-age drama.
- Flee. - Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen. - Metascore: 91. - Runtime: 90 minutes. Unique in more ways than one, this largely animated documentary often feels too incredible to be true.
- Licorice Pizza. Film. Comedy. What a joy Paul Thomas Anderson’s freewheeling film turned out to be. It cartwheels around the San Fernando Valley armed with all the local knowledge you’d expect (PTA, of course, grew up there), a cast of maverick characters – real (Bradley Cooper’s deranged movie exec Jon Peters) and otherwise (Sean Penn’s William Holden-like Hollywood warhorse, Jack Holden) – and a script loaded with zingers.
- Nomadland. Film. Drama. A van-dweller who drives across the US badlands and shits in a bucket is not normally what Best Picture winners are made of. But with a commanding Frances McDormand at the wheel, support from a cast of real-life nomads and indie superstar Chloé Zhao behind the camera, Nomadland was a naturalist drama that got right under the skin of late capitalist America and its disenfranchised outsiders.
- The Father. Film. Drama. Anthony Hopkins was a deserving Best Actor winner for his lead role in a dementia drama with a twist. But major props, too, to director Florian Zeller.
- The Power of the Dog. Jane Campion hadn’t made a movie since Bright Star nearly 15 years ago. As Twitter might have put it: ‘Da fuk, #Camps?!’ Her subversive western showed what we’ve all been missing: superlative control of mood, glorious widescreen vistas and a smuggled-in subtext that uses the traditional trappings of the western to strip down alpha masculinity to its faulty parts.
The 20 best films of 2021. MGM/Yannis Drakoulidis/Netflix/Kirsty Griffin/Netflix. BBC Culture film critics Nicholas Barber and Caryn James pick their highlights of the year, including...
In the first scene, two men stand outside of a car, waiting for the air conditioner to cool down the vehicle. As one puts on some house music using the car’s CD player, their silence is broken into a state of indescribable feelings. In the second scene, shot on Super 8 film, a person tries to recount a story as he spins a pen around in his hands. As he narrates the story which he cannot ...
Dec 23, 2021 · This past year was a tumultuous one for both the film and TV industries. With that in mind, here's our critics' guide to all the movies and television shows they loved this year.
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