2021 was supposed to be the year the movies came back as the epidemic seems to have taken a turn (for a while), and with movies re-emerging around the world, your local theater offers a plethora of options, ranging from old trusted choices through mega Hollywood franchises with new vocals and storytelling.
Twelve months later, things clearly didn’t go as smoothly as we had hoped. While the multiplex business has rarely grown for the big balls of superheroes and alien creatures, most other types of movies have been hits, at least on the big screen. Nevertheless, this is a significant year for movies as a whole, where viewers are still treated with great excellence in theaters or at-home streaming. In fact, some of the best streaming experiments of 2021 have further blurred the idea of what cinema is.
Thus below is a ranking based and the best collections of movies of the year 2021, as decided by surveyed staff as well as by readers’ opinions.
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Dune
For all discussions about divisions between listeners and critics, it’s always nice to see a little consensus. Critics’ picks and audience choices have been combined for the best movie of the year and really, Dune is the perfect movie to choose.
The cast represents the story as an old-school Hollywood biblical epic. Paul Atreides (Timothee Chamalet), a brilliant and talented young man who was born with a great destiny beyond his comprehension, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to protect the future of his family and his people. As hostile forces explode with the exclusive supply of the planet’s most valuable resource, only those who can overcome their fears will survive.
The iconic film has received an 8.1 rating from viewers as the best film of 2021.
Belfast
The number of directors traveling the streets of memory with semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood is increasing day by day. Nonetheless, Kenneth Branagh’s anxious and sadly emotional Belfast stands out, as there is definitely a happy rose-colored scene from the non-pink period.
A semi-autobiographical film by Kenneth Branagh which depicting the life of a working-class family and their young son’s childhood during the turmoil in the Northern Ireland capital in the late 1960s.
Judas and The Black Messiah
Even the dramatic, real life, without the historical weight behind it, Judas and the Black Messiah is a powerful cinematic work of irresistible beauty and an ugly emotional description of justice by Daniel Kaluuya.
The story set like Proposing an appealing deal by the FBI, William O’Neill infiltrated the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg waited for his entire career to make a full-throated musical in the memory of Romeo and Juliet. As glorious as this re-enactment of the West Side Story has become, let’s hope it moves a little faster in the follow-up.
Directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins set the story in a picturesque manner in which a musical band where a modern-day Romeo and Juliet are involved with a street gang in New York. On the hard road to the upper west, two gangs are fighting for turf control. The situation becomes problematic when a crew member falls in love with a rival’s sister.
Bo Burnham: Inside
Bo Burnham’s deeply personal, often hilarious documentary about trying to create art in the midst of the uncertainty and isolation of 2020 feels more like a movie than a stand-up comedy than his latest comedy special.
The storyline takes place as Burnham performs in a single room, unable to leave his home. He periodically updates on the time he has spent working on the specialty, covering his hair and beard. After singing “Content” in “Comedy” and satirizing white male comedians, he finds inspiration to create specials.
