Your Top Movies of 2021

[eurocheese]

Best of the Year

1. Swan Song
2. Titane
3. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
4. CODA
5. Spencer
6. Drive My Car
7. The Worst Person in the World
8. The Power of the Dog
9. Tick, Tick... BOOM!
10. King Richard
11. Red Rocket
12. Jockey
13. Flee
14. Being the Ricardos


Also Good

15. Mass
16. Dune
17. West Side Story
18. The Novice
19. The French Dispatch
20. Together Together
21. A Hero
22. Cruella
23. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
24. In the Heights
25. The Jesus Music
26. Bergman Island
27. Compartment No. 6
28. Spider-Man: No Way Home
29. Zola
30. Pig
31. The Night House
32. C'mon C'mon
33. Black Widow
34. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
35. Worth
36. Pray Away
37. Luca
38. The Courier
39. Stillwater

OK

40. Encanto
41. The Humans
42. No Sudden Move
43. A Quiet Place Part II
44. Jungle Cruise
45. I'm Your Man
46. The Harder They Fall
47. Summer of Soul
48. Belfast
49. The Lost Daughter
50. Parallel Mothers
51. Cyrano
52. Petite Maman
53. Respect
54. Dear Evan Hansen
55. The Hand of God
56. Don't Look Up
57. The Green Knight
58. Reminiscence
59. Nightmare Alley
60. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
61. Single All the Way
62. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
63. Mortal Kombat
64. Land

No Thanks

65. Last Night in Soho
66. House of Gucci
67. Pleasure
68. The Tragedy of MacBeth
69. The Guilty
70. The Sparks Brothers
71. The Woman in the Window
72. The Last Duel
73. Licorice Pizza
74. The Tender Bar
75. Passing
76. Bruised
77. My Zoe
78. Wild Indian
79. Flag Day
80. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
81. Paris 13th District
82. I Was a Simple Man
83. Annette
84. The Card Counter

[malcolm1980]

01. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) - A
02. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) - A
03. Pig (Michael Sarnoski) - A
04. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg) - A
05. Titane (Julia Ducournau) - A
06. Mass (Fran Kranz) - A
07. Dune (Denis Villenueve) - A-
08. Whether the Weather is Fine (Carlo Francisco Manatad) - A-
09. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier) - A-
10. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) - A-
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Luca (Enrico Casarosa) - A-
The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson) - A-
A Hero (Ashgar Farhadi) - A-
The Green Knight (David Lowery) - A-
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) - A-
The Rescue (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi/Jimmy Chin) - A-
The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Mike Rianda) - A-
Attica (Stanley J. Nelson) - A-
Red Rocket (Sean Baker) - A-
Summer of Soul (...or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Ahmir "QuestLove" Thompson) - A-
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) - A-
On the Job: The Missing 8 (Erik Matti) - A-
Faya Dayi (Jessica Beshir) - A-
tick, tick...BOOM! (Lin-Manuel Miranda) - A-
The First Wave (Matthew Heinemann) - A-
Encanto (Jared Bush/Byron Howard) - B+
The Harder They Fall (Jeymes Samuel) - B+
Spencer (Pablo Larrain) - B+
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodovar) - B+
This Is Not A Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese) - B+
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts) - B+
Ascension (Jessica Kingdon) - B+
Big Night! (Jun Robles Lana) - B+
The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos) - B+
No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh) - B+
In the Heights (Jon M. Chu) - B+
Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma) - B+
Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro) - B+
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasetkathul) - B+
No Time to Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga) - B+
Procession (Robert Greene) - B+
C'mon C'mon (Mike Mills) - B+
Raya and the Last Dragon (Don Hall/Carlos Lopez Estrada) - B+
In The Same Breath (Nanfu Wang) - B+
CODA (Sian Heder) - B+
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen) - B+
A Cop Movie (Alonzo Ruizpalacios) - B+
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Pawo Choyning Dorji) - B+
Swan Song (Todd Stephens) - B+
The Last Duel (Ridley Scott) - B+
Writing with Fire (Sushmit Ghosh/Rintu Thomas) - B+
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal) - B+
Simple as Water (Megan Mylan) - B+
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) - B+
King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green) - B+
Eternals (Chloe Zhao) - B+
Nightbooks (David Yarovesky) - B+
Passing (Rebecca Hall) - B+
Annette (Leos Carax) - B+
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Destin Daniel Crettin) - B+
Bad Trip (Kitao Sakurai) - B+
Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin) - B+
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (Chris Smith) - B
Zola (Janicza Bravo) - B
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) - B
Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Jonathan Butterell) - B
Cyrano (Joe Wright) - B
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino) - B
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven) - B
A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski) - B
Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum) - B
I'm Your Man (Maria Schrader) - B
The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski) - B
The Summit of the Gods (Patrick Imbert) - B
Pray Away (Kristine Stolakis) - B
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude) - B
Black Widow (Cate Shortland) - B
Oxygen (Alexandre Aja) - B
The Tambour of Retribution (Abdulaziz Alshlahei) - B
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed (Joshua Rofe) - B
Yellow Cat (Adilkhan Yerzhanov) - B
The Guilty (Antoine Fuqua) - B
The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane) - B
Cruella (Craig Gillespie) - B
Malignant (James Wan) - B-
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter) - B-
House of Gucci (Ridley Scott) - B-
Zero to Hero (Wan Chi-man) - B-
A Boy Called Christmas (Gil Kenan) - B-
Reminiscence (Lisa Joy) - B-
The Suicide Squad (James Gunn) - B-
Kingdom: Ashin of the North (Kim Seong-hun) - B-
Lamb (Valdimar Johannsson) - B-
Britney vs. Spears (Erin Lee Carr) - B-
Army of the Dead (Zack Snyder) - B-
Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard) - B-
Mayor Pete (Jesse Moss) - C+
The Tender Bar (George Clooney) - C+
Vivo (Kirk DeMicco) - C+
Dear Evan Hansen (Stephen Chbosky) - C+
Locked Down (Doug Liman) - C+
The Tomorrow War (Chris McKay) - C+
Zack Snyder's Justice League (Zack Snyder) - C+
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Jason Reitman) - C
The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright) - C
Don't Look Up (Adam McKay) - C
Holy Beasts (Laura Israel Guzman/Israel Cardenas) - C
Diana The Musical (Christopher Ashley) - D+

[Brad]

Movies seen (unranked for now… just trying to remember what I’ve seen):

Top 10
1. Flee: A
2. The Harder They Fall: A-
3. Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar: A-
4. Dune: A-
5. Pig: A-
5. The Worst Person In The World: B+
7. Roadrunner: B+
8. Parallel Mothers: B+
9. Spencer: B+
10. CODA: B+


The Rest:
Plan B: B+
I Care A Lot: B+
Quiet Place II: B+
Titane: B
King Richard: B
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents: B
Summer of Soul: B
Vacation Friends: B
Swan Song: B
tick tick… BOOM: B
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: B
Blood Red Sky: B
Tina: B
Pray Away: B
Fear Street:1994, 1978, 1666: B
Being The Ricardos: B
Power of the Dog: B-
The Last Duel: B-
Zola: B-
Val: B-
Willy’s Wonderland: B-
Don’t Look Up: B-
Free Guy: B-
Nightmare Alley:C+
Black Friday: C+
Werewolves Within: C+
The Lost Daughter: C
Army of the Dead: C
Jolt: C
Licorice Pizza: C-
West Side Story: D+
Godzilla vs. Kong: D
Reminiscence: D
Woman in the Window: D-

[Tristan]

*****
Drive My Car

**** 1/2
Encanto
Green Knight
In the Earth
Titane
The Worst Person in the World
Raya and the Last Dragon
In the Heights
The Lost Daughter
Flee

****
Parallel Mothers
Eternals
Tick, Tick...Boom!
No Sudden Move
The French Dispatch
The Tragedy of MacBeth
Saint Maud
Bergman Island
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Gunpowder Milkshake
Dune
The Suicide Squad
No Time to Die
CODA
Pig
Shiva Baby
Nightmare Alley
Passing
About Endlessness
The Power of the Dog

***1/2
West Side Story
Luca
Jungle Cruise
Zola

***
Annette
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Malignant
Being the Ricardos
Cruella
Spencer
Licorice Pizza
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
House of Gucci
King Richard
The Last Duel

**1/2
Spider Man: No Way Home

*1/2
Kate

1/2*
Don't Look Up