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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....
- 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 Souvenir Part II. Joanna Hogg, UK. And the winner is… The Souvenir Part II. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne reflect on winning the S&S 2021 poll, and on the long and satisfying journey of making the Souvenir films.
- Petite maman. Céline Sciamma, France. Sciamma’s miniature forest fairy tale perfectly conjures the mysteries of a mother-daughter bond shaded by grief. We said: “An extremely small and exactly perfect film, Céline Sciamma’s Petite maman might at first appear dwarfed by her last title, Portrait of a Lady of Fire.
- Drive My Car. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Japan. Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryūsuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss.
- Memoria. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand. Tilda Swinton wanders the streets of Bogota while striving to understand the strange noise repeatedly sounding in her head, in the Thai master’s latest enigmatic revelation of ambiguous mental states.
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 (...
- 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.
1. The Novice. 2021 1h 37m R. 6.5 (7.2K) Rate. 85 Metascore. A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. Director Lauren Hadaway Stars Isabelle Fuhrman Amy Forsyth Dilone. My new favorite movie of the year.
Feb 20, 2022 · From grand, long-awaited tentpoles like “Dune” to Cannes favorites like “Annette,” “The Worst Person in the World,” “Titane,” and “Drive My Car,” and Netflix powerhouses like ...
