The Films of 2021

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Ten Best of 2021

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Titles in bold are highly recommended.


About Endlessness

Above Suspicion (2021)

Addams Family 2, The

Adventures of a Mathematician

Agnes

Ailey

Akilla's Escape

All Light, Everywhere

Alpinist, The

America: The Motion Picture

American Night

American Sausage Standoff

American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally

American Underdog

Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition

Annette

Antlers

Army of the Dead

Army of Thieves

Auschwitz Report, The

Awake (2021)

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Bad Trip

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Beckett

Becoming Cousteau

Being the Ricardos

Belfast

Belle (2021)

Benedetta

Bergman Island

Best Sellers

Beta Test, The

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

Birds of Paradise

Birthday Cake, The

Black Widow (2021)

Blast Beat

Blazing World, The

Bliss (2021)

Blithe Spirit (2021)

Blizzard of Souls

Bloodthirsty

Blue Bayou

Body Brokers

Boiling Point (2021)

Boogie

Boss Baby: Family Business, The

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

Bring Your Own Brigade

Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Brothers by Blood

Bruised

Candyman (2021)

Card Counter, The

Censor

Chaos Walking

Cherry (2021)

Cinderella (2021)

City of Lies

Cliff Walkers

Clifford the Big Red Dog

C'mon C'mon

CODA (2021)

Collection

Colony, The (2021)

Come from Away

Come True

Coming 2 America

Compartment No. 6

Concrete Cowboy

Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The

Cop Movie, A

Copshop

Cosmic Sin

County, The

Courier, The (2021)

Cowboys

Crime Story (2021)

Crisis (2021)

Cruella

Cry Macho

Cryptozoo

Cyrano

Dangerous (2021)

Dara of Jasenovac

Dark Foe, A

Dear Evan Hansen

Death in Texas

Demonic

Detention (2021)

Devil Below, The

Dig, The

Die in a Gunfight

Djinn, The

Don't Breathe 2

Don't Look Up

Don't Tell a Soul

Dream Horse

Drive My Car

Dry, The

Duke, The

Dune (2021)

Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The

Ema

Encanto

Encounter

Endangered Species (2021)

Enemies of the State

Enforcement

Escape from Mogadishu

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

Eternals

Every Breath You Take

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Evil Next Door, The

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The (2021)

Falling (2021)

Falling for Figaro

False Positive

Fatherhood

Fathom (2021)

Fear of Rain

Fear Street: 1994

Fear Street: 1978

Fear Street: 1666

Feast, The

Fever Dream

Final Account

Final Set

Finch

First Date

Flashback (2021)

Flee

Flora & Ulysses

F9

For the Sake of Vicious

Forever Purge, The

Found (2021)

Four Good Days

France

Free Guy

French Dispatch, The

Funhouse

Gaia

Gateway, The (2021)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Godzilla vs. Kong

Good on Paper

Grand Duke of Corsica, The

Great White

Green Knight, The

Guilty, The (2021)

Gully

Gunpowder Milkshake

Halloween Kills

Hand of God, The

Happily

Hard Luck Love Song

Harder They Fall, The (2021)

Heart of Champions

Held

Held for Ransom (2021)

Here Today

Hero, A

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Hive

Holler

Homeroom

Hope

House of Gucci

How to Deter a Robber

Human Factor, The (2021)

Humans, The

I Care a Lot

Ida Red

Identifying Features

If Not Now, When?

I'm Your Man

In the Earth

In the Heights

In the Same Breath

India Sweets and Spices

Infinite

Into the Darkness

Intrusion

Jacinta

Jakob's Wife

Jockey

Joe Bell

John and the Hole

Jolt

Journal for Jordan, A

Judas and the Black Messiah

Julia (2021)

Jumbo

Jungle Cruise

Karen

Kate

Killing of Two Lovers, The

King Richard

King's Man, The

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Lady of the Manor

Lamb (2021)

Land

Language Lessons

Lansky

Lapsis

Last Duel, The

Last Letter from Your Lover, The

Last Mercenary, The (2021)

Last Night in Soho

Licorice Pizza

Limbo (2021)

Little Fish (2021)

Little Things, The

Locked Down

Long Story Short

Long Weekend (2021)

Lorelei

Lost Daughter, The

Lost Leonardo, The

Luca

Mad Women's Ball, The

Mafia Inc

Malcolm & Marie

Malignant (2021)

Man Who Sold His Skin, The

Many Saints of Newark, The

Map of Tiny Perfect Things, The

Marksman, The (2021)

Masquerade (2021)

Mass

Matrix Resurrections, The

Mauritanian, The

Mayday

Me You Madness

Meaning of Hitler, The

Memoria (2021)

Midnight in the Switchgrass

Mitchells vs. the Machines, The

MLK/FBI

Moby Doc

Moffie

Mogul Mowgli

Monday (2021)

Monster (2021)

Mortal Kombat (2021)

Mother/Android

Mothering Sunday

Moxie

My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To

My Little Sister

My Name Is Pauli Murray

My Wonderful Wanda

My Zoe

Naked Singularity

National Champions

Needle in a Timestack

Never Gonna Snow Again

New Order

Night, The (2021)

Night House, The

Night Teeth

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Nina Wu

Nine Days

No Man of God

No Man's Land (2021)

No One Gets Out Alive

No Time to Die

Nobody (2021)

Notorious Nick

Notturno

Novice, The

Nowhere Inn, The

Old

Old Henry

On Broadway (2021)

Operation Varsity Blues

Our Friend

Out of Death

Outside the Wire

Oxygen (2021)

Palmer

Paper Spiders

Paper Tigers, The

Parallel Mothers

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

Passing

Penguin Bloom

Percy vs Goliath

Perfect Candidate, The

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

Petite Maman

PG: Psycho Goreman

Pig

P!nk: All I Know So Far

Pixie

Plan B (2021)

Playing God (2021)

Poupelle of Chimney Town

Powder Keg

Power of the Dog, The

Prayers for the Stolen

Prisoners of the Ghostland

Procession

Profile

Protégé, The

PVT CHAT

Queen Bees

Queenpins

Quiet Place: Part II, A

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Raging Fire

Rams (2021)

Raya and the Last Dragon

Reason I Jump, The

Reckoning, The (2021)

Red Notice

Red Rocket

Redemption Day

Reminiscence

Rescue, The (2021)

Resort, The

Respect

Reunion (2021)

Riders of Justice

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Rogue Hostage

Ron's Gone Wrong

Rookies, The

Rushed

Safer at Home

Saint Maud

Seance

Separation (2021)

Settlers

7 Prisoners

Seventh Day, The (2021)

Shadow in the Cloud

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shiva Baby

Shoplifters of the World

Siberia (2021)

Silent Night (2021)

Silk Road (RogerEbert.com)

Silo

Sin

Sing 2

Six Minutes to Midnight

Skater Girl

Slalom

Small Engine Repair

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

Some Kind of Heaven

Son

Son of the South

South of Heaven

Souvenir: Part II, The

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Sparks Brothers, The

Spencer

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spine of Night, The

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

Spirit Untamed

SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, The

Starling, The

Stillwater

Stowaway (2021)

Stray

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Suicide Squad, The

Summer of 85

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summit of the Gods, The

Supernova (2021)

Surge

Swan Song (2021)

Swan Song (2021/II)

Sweet Girl

Tailgate

Tender Bar, The

Test Pattern

There's Someone Inside Your House

Things Heard & Seen

13 Minutes (2021)

This Is the Night (2021)

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Thunder Force

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Till Death

Titane

Together (2021)

Together Together

Tom and Jerry

Tomorrow War, The

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (2021)

True Mothers

Truth to Power

Tunnel, The (2021)

12 Mighty Orphans

Twist (2021)

Two of Us

Under the Stadium Lights

Undine (2021)

Unforgivable, The

Unholy, The (2021)

United States vs. Billie Holiday, The

Unthinkable, The

Vacation Friends

Val

Vanquish

Vault, The (2021)

Velvet Queen, The

Velvet Underground, The

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Vigil, The

Virtuoso, The

Vivo

Voyagers

Voyeurs, The

Water Man, The

We Broke Up

We Need to Do Something

Week Away, A

Werewolves Within

West Side Story (2021)

Whirlybird

White as Snow

White Tiger, The

Who You Think I Am

Wife of a Spy

Wild Indian

Wildcat (2021)

Willy's Wonderland

Wish Dragon

Without Remorse

Wolf (2021)

Woman in the Window, The (2021)

Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station, The

World to Come, The

Worst Person in the World, The

Worth

Wrath of Man

Yakuza Princess

Year of the Everlasting Storm, The

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Zeros and Ones

Zola

Zone 414