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Dec 8, 2021 · 14 – Oxygen. Oxygen is a clever little film, one that keeps you guessing right up to the very end. Propped up by a stunning performance from Mélanie Laurent, Netflix’s latest cerebral thriller takes inspiration from 127 Hours, Saw and Buried, blending them up together, to deliver an enthralling French picture.
Dec 2, 2021 · Richard Brody, a film critic, began writing for The New Yorker in 1999. He is the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”. Richard Brody lists the best feature ...
- BBC Culture film critics Nicholas Barber and Caryn James pick their highlights of the year, including Nomadland, Another Round and West Side Story. Warner Bros Pictures.
- Judas and the Black Messiah. The true story of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther Party leader who was murdered in 1969 on orders from the FBI, becomes high drama in director Shaka King's film, which is by turns suspenseful, action-filled and intimate.
- The Green Knight. The Green Knight features castles, giants, witches and damsels in distress, just like countless swords-and-sorcery adventures before it.
- Raya and the Last Dragon. Funny, colourful and action-filled, this Disney family film set in the fictional ancient Asian kingdom of Kumandra is a delight.
- The Power of the Dog" There are good films every year. If we're lucky, there are a few great films. But there are few films that actually feel like they make time stop.
- Drive My Car" A story of grief and healing, "Drive My Car" is one of those “nothing happens” movies in which everything happens. The action is largely internal, expressed through dialogue and silence and by watching the characters do what they do.
- Licorice Pizza" Paul Thomas Anderson's 2018 "Phantom Thread" was a tightly-coiled romantic melodrama (albeit with a maniacal streak), a period piece taking place in 1950s London.
- "Summer of Soul" With more than 50 hours of fragile videotape of a 1969 series of concerts in Harlem to restore and pare down, director Questlove (Ahmir Thompson) said he “just kept it on 24-hour loop, no matter where I was, in the house or in the world.
- Dune. If at any point you've pondered what's been missing from our lives for most of this past year, the answer lies about half an hour into Denis Villeneuve's Dune.
- Sound Of Metal. Film reviews rarely call out sound designers, but Nicholas Becker's extraordinary work on Darius Marder's stunning debut deserves all the plaudits (not to mention an Academy Award) as it puts you inside the head of heavy metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed), losing not only his hearing, but also his raison d'étre.
- Minari. First things first, it's pronounced Mih-na-ree, and it's a weed that purifies the ground and the water around it. This is what Lee Isaac Chung's mini masterpiece is all about, the deep connections that root us.
- Nomadland. If there was an award for the filmmaker behind the two most divergent films of 2021, it'd have to go to Chloé Zhao. While she ended the year with a big swing by releasing epic superhero fantasy Eternals – possibly Marvel's most divisive movie ever, with a story spanning 7000 years and a cast comprising 10 cosmic gods – she kicked it off with awards favourite Nomadland.
Dec 17, 2021 · My No. 7 movie, Petite Maman, from the French director Céline Sciamma, is a much quieter, gentler story about mothers and daughters. It runs just 72 minutes, and does more in that compact running ...
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Permalink. Warning: Spoilers. Amidst a trio of elderly cousins with ill intent, the young Priscilla (Gina Gillespie) fondly reminisces with her favorite companion and guardian Mr. George. She's been left an estate of a half million dollars by George Craig's fiancée, another relative who's passed away, and if the cousins have their way Miss ...
