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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....
- IGN's favorite films of the year.
- Grade: 9
- Grade: 10
By IGN Staff
Updated: Jan 7, 2022 11:42 pm
Posted: Dec 27, 2021 6:25 pm
With the end of 2021 just around the corner, let's have a look at the films released so far this year that were scored the best of the best by IGN's critics.
But first, a few notes: IGN rates its movies on a scale of 0-10. The "best reviewed" movies listed here all scored 8 or above. The IGN review scale labels any film scored 8 as "great," 9 as "amazing," 10 as "masterpiece". That said, read on for the best movies of 2021 -- listed in score order -- from The Father, the only film to earn the rare 10/10 review score in 2021, to a new entry in the beloved Ghostbusters franchise to a big-screen adaptation of one of the most beloved plays of all time and much more...
And when you're done here, be sure to check out the Worst Reviewed Movies of 2021 as well.
Read the Review: “Not everything works in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story — how could it, when the 1961 classic is nigh unimpeachable? — but his visual translation of some of the original’s latent ideas makes it a complementary piece. At once rougher and more dazzling, it has tremendous high points that seldom overlap with its predecessor, resul...
Read the Review: “The Father is a devastating masterwork by first-time director Florian Zeller, based on his play Le Père. The film follows an old man with dementia (Anthony Hopkins) and manipulates its editing and set design until you can longer trust your perceptions — much like its main character. It features career-best work from all involved, including Hopkins, as a man trying desperately to cling to his old life, and Olivia Colman as his daughter, who cares for him at great personal cost.” - Siddhant Adlakha
What are the best movies you've seen so far this year? Let's discuss in the comments!
Oct 20, 2021 · The opening title calls it “Dune Part 1” and while this two-and-a-half hour movie provides a bonafide epic experience, it’s not coy about connoting that there’s more to the story. Herbert’s own vision corresponds to Villeneuve’s own storytelling affinities to the extent that he apparently did not feel compelled to graft his own ...
- 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.
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 find blockbusters ( Shang-Chi ), documentaries (...
Dec 2, 2021 · Richard Brody lists the best feature films of 2021, which include “The French Dispatch,” “Licorice Pizza,” “Zola,” and “I Was a Simple Man.”
Feb 20, 2022 · "The Power of the Dog," "Drive My Car," and "Licorice Pizza" top IndieWire's annual critics poll of the best movies of the year.
