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Jun 23, 2021 · The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2021 (So Far) THR's film reviewers pick faves from the first half of the year, including a South African drama about a gay soldier, a...
Sep 16, 2021 · From biographical documentaries on flawed musicians and iconic actors to horror tales of the unfairly institutionalized and subversive love stories, 2021 has given us a potpourri of goodness from...
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.
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...
- Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
- Judas and The Black Messiah
- The Mauritanian
- I Care A Lot
- Zack Snyder's Justice League
- Raya and The Last Dragon
- The Courier
- Nobody
- Flora & Ulysses
- Saint Maud
A celebration of womanhood, friendship, and Jamie Dornan's pirouetting skills unlike anything seen before by mankind, Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar delivered pure goofy sun-soaked delight to our grey quarantine Februarys. It's not the easiest movie to to describe in a line or two, but things begin with two nice BFFs from the Midwest (Kristen Wi...
Shaka King’s work on Judas and the Black Messiah is beyond confident. He’s made a propulsive, relentless, harrowing, gripping film, one that’s so watchable even as it plunges further into the state-sanctioned tragedy we know ends Fred Hampton’s life. And yet it’s not a miserablist affair; Daniel Kaluuya’s multiple-award-winning take on Hampton make...
The Mauritanian would make a great (but grim) double-feature with The Report. Both films chronicle the abuses taken by the U.S. government during the war on terror, but The Mauritanian wisely uses the point of view from a man on the receiving end of those abuses, Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim), who was accused of being a recruiter for the 9/11 ...
Like the best piece of sour candy, I Care a Lot tastes sweet the more it burns. This is a film full of foul people doing foul things for foul intentions, playing a little like if the Coen Brothers adapted “late stage capitalism.” Rosamund Pike gives a career-best performance as a craven manipulator and fraudster who assigns herself as the caretaker...
I can’t believe this film actually exists, and I can’t believe I actually like it. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a work of pop opera, a massive flex, an immersive and atmospheric dissemination of “vibes.” It’s an uncut experience of Zack Snyder’s strengths, both literally (it’s four friggin’ hours long!) and figuratively (so much slow-mo, brutali...
I am endlessly impressed at the fleetness and efficiency packed into the storytelling of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. The film sets up and lives in several worlds full of distinct mythologies and motivations, gives each main character a clear and identifiable arc, and pulls off some beautifully animated action sequences to boot. On top of all...
Find the nearest dad and take them to see The Courier (provided you’ve both been vaccinated and it is safe to do so). Dominic Cooke’s Cold War thriller is based on the true story of British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his unlikely friendship with secret agent Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) to smuggle documents out of the USSR...
Here is an absolute cruise missile of an action picture. Nobody is a peerlessly crafted movie, one that takes a familiar premise — Bob Odenkirk is a retired assassin brought back to action after things become personal — and presents the most pristine, crystallized, pure version possible. Director Ilya Naishuller takes every possible opportunity to ...
I’m not sure exactly when I started crying while watching Flora & Ulysses in Disney+, but once the tears started coming, they never stopped coming. Based on the acclaimed children’s novel by Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses is a family-friendly superhero dramedy starring Matilda Lawler as Flora, a cynical young girl whose writer parents (Ben Schwart...
Saint Maud is one of the more heartbreaking movies that got scuttled by the pandemic. The feature film debut from Rose Glass was teed up to be the next big A24 horror release after building a steady stream of festival buzz since its 2019 TIFF debut. Then COVID happened, the original April 2020 release date got washed off the board, and ultimately, ...
Dec 23, 2020 · Empire counts down the best films of 2021 – from Nomadland and Dune, to West Side Story and The Green Knight.
Jun 25, 2021 · But so far, this year's mix of platform streaming, VOD, and oh-my-God-we're-sitting-in-an-actual-theater-again has already yielded more than enough films than there is room to celebrate in a top...
