The Best Of 2021

by huhta-joel | created - 12 Nov 2021 | updated - 11 Jan 2022 | Public
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1. Dune (2021)

PG-13 | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

74 Metascore

A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac

Votes: 857,906 | Gross: $108.33M

2. The Last Duel (2021)

R | 152 min | Action, Drama, History

67 Metascore

The Knight Jean de Carrouges must settle the dispute over his wife Marguerite by challenging his former friend to a duel to the death.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter

Votes: 182,306 | Gross: $10.85M

3. Licorice Pizza (2021)

R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

90 Metascore

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits

Votes: 140,364

4. The French Dispatch (2021)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

75 Metascore

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux

Votes: 150,720

5. No Time to Die (2021)

PG-13 | 163 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

68 Metascore

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux

Votes: 444,976 | Gross: $160.87M

6. Last Night in Soho (2021)

R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

65 Metascore

Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.

Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg

Votes: 177,164

7. Compartment Number 6 (2021)

R | 107 min | Drama, Romance

80 Metascore

As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

Director: Juho Kuosmanen | Stars: Seidi Haarla, Yura Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Yuliya Aug

Votes: 15,460

8. Spencer (2021)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama

76 Metascore

Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen

Votes: 76,625

9. Drive My Car (2021)

Unrated | 179 min | Drama

91 Metascore

A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada

Votes: 65,885

10. House of Gucci (2021)

R | 158 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

59 Metascore

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons

Votes: 159,968 | Gross: $53.81M

11. Lamb (2021)

R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

68 Metascore

A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson

Votes: 38,443

12. The Suicide Squad (2021)

R | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

72 Metascore

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman

Votes: 409,958 | Gross: $55.82M

13. The Guilty (2021)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

63 Metascore

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Christina Vidal

Votes: 148,862

14. The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama

60 Metascore

Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 63,304

15. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

55 Metascore

An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

Director: Michael Showalter | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 38,968

16. The Green Knight (2021)

R | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

85 Metascore

A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Director: David Lowery | Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury

Votes: 118,109

17. Nobody (I) (2021)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

64 Metascore

A docile family man slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled by two petty thieves, which, coincidentally, leads him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.

Director: Ilya Naishuller | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 324,720 | Gross: $27.27M

18. Pig (I) (2021)

R | 92 min | Drama, Mystery

82 Metascore

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

Director: Michael Sarnoski | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Cassandra Violet

Votes: 89,610

19. The Card Counter (2021)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

78 Metascore

William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. When he encounters a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy, he takes him on the casino circuit to set him on a new path.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 43,032

20. Old Henry (2021)

Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western

69 Metascore

A farmer takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse comes for the money, he must decide who to trust. Defending a siege, he reveals a gunslinging talent calling his true identity into question.

Director: Potsy Ponciroli | Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins

Votes: 36,675

21. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)

R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi

63 Metascore

Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.

Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff

Votes: 279,744

22. In the Heights (2021)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

84 Metascore

In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.

Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera

Votes: 52,144

23. West Side Story (2021)

PG-13 | 156 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

85 Metascore

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez

Votes: 95,624

24. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

R | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History

84 Metascore

Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.

Director: Shaka King | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback

Votes: 91,522

25. tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

74 Metascore

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens

Votes: 119,691



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