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- 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.
- 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.
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- Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar. For their follow-up to the Academy Award-nominated "Bridesmaids," Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo made the choice that so many great artists have before them — create something completely and utterly different from the work that granted them success.
- Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry. From director R.J. Cutler comes this epic and unabashed look into the life of one of contemporary music's most popular and mesmerizing artists.
- Bo Burnham: Inside. "Bo Burnham: Inside" is ostensibly a stand-up comedy special, but that description barely does it justice. It's a heightened, musical document of Burnham's year of COVID-19 quarantine during which he attempts to produce a 90-minute film entirely by himself.
- CODA. After making a huge splash at the Sundance Film Festival (winning the Grand Jury Prize, among many other accolades), "CODA" stormed into theater's at the tail end of the summer to even more acclaim and emotional resonance with a larger audience.
Feb 20, 2022 · Best Films of 2021. Everett Collection. While 2021 may be in the rearview mirror, the awards season is still waging on, with the March 27 Oscars ceremony still over a month away. Back in...
Dec 23, 2021 · Empire counts down the best films of 2021 – from Nomadland and Dune, to West Side Story and The Green Knight.
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 (...
