somehow managed to watch 137 2021 movies (and another 170 movies from earlier years). Here are the ones that I most admire and engage with. (Note: I still haven’t seen The Tragedy of Macbeth or Parallel Mothers.)
To get on my year-end list, a movie has to be one that thrills me while I’m watching it and one that I’m still thinking about a couple of days later.
THE BEST OF THE YEAR
- Drive My Car
- Riders of Justice
- Belfast
- Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- The Power of the Dog
- Nightmare Alley
- Don’t Look Up
- Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
- Lamb
- About Endlessness
- Slow Machine
The entire list, with some bonus recognition, is at Best Movies of 2021.
