Top movies of 2021
Well after a tumultuous year, I finally got to go back to the movies. It may also be why - you might have noticed - a lot of the movies on my 'top' list are feel-good movies.
May 1st, 2021 marked 2 weeks after my 2nd Moderna shot and I was back signing up for AMC A-List, getting a membership at IFC and going back to the movies like never before. In theaters, I saw 73 movies since May. Total: I saw 140 2021 movies.
Here are my top 10 11 movies of 2021 (in no particular order)
Spiderman: No Way Home
West Side Story
Drive My Car
Encanto
Belfast
Last Night in Soho
Flee
Nine Days
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
Tick...Tick...Boom!
Luca
Honorable mentions:
C'mon C'mon
King Richard
Werewolves Within
CODA
I'm Your Man
Swan Song
For reference, here are all the 2021 movies I saw. 1-72 at the theater. The rest on streaming.
2021 Movies
- Jockey
- Memoria
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Sing 2
- Parallel Mothers
- The Matrix 4
- Spiderman
- The Lost Daughter
- Nightmare Alley
- Being the Ricardos
- Red Rocket
- Don’t Look Up
- West Side Story
- House of Gucci
- Drive My Car
- Licorice Pizza
- The Humans
- Encanto
- Bad Luck Banging
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- C’mon C’mon
- King Richard
- The Power of the Dog
- A Hero
- Belfast
- Spencer
- Eternals
- Last Night in Soho
- Antlers
- The French Dispatch
- Flee
- Minyan
- Ron’s Gone Wrong
- Dune
- I’m Your Man
- Mayor Pete
- Halloween Kills
- Bergman Island
- The Last Duel
- Lamb
- No Time to Die
- Mass
- Titane
- The Card Counter
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Shang-Chi
- The Night House
- Candyman
- Free Guy
- Nine Days
- The Green Knight
- Old
- How It Ends
- I Carry You With Me
- Pig
- Escape Room 2
- Black Widow
- Zola
- The Forever Purge
- Werewolves Within
- Censor
- In the Heights
- The Conjuring 3
- Cruella
- A Quiet Place 2
- The Djinn
- Spiral
- Together Together
- Raya & The Last Dragon
- Wrath of Man
- Paper Spiders
- Limbo
- Nobody
- Prayers for the Stolen
- Blue Bayou
- Venom 2
- We Have to Do Something
- The Hand of God
- Swan Song
- Encounter
- The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
- Annette
- The Tomorrow War
- The Box
- Everybody's Talking about Jamie
- Saint Maud
- Coming 2 America
- The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
- CODA
- Finch
- The Velvet Underground
- Cherry
- Summer of Soul
- Chaos Walking
- We Broke Up
- False Positive
- Tentacles
- Flag Day
- Respect
- Stillwater
- The Courier
- Land
- Supernova
- The Summit of the Gods
- tick...tick...Boom!
- Procession
- 7 Prisoners
- Passing
- The Harder They Fall
- The Sparks Brothers
- Hypnotic
- Till Death
- There's Something Inside Your House
- No One Gets Out Alive
- Vivo
- The Guilty
- The Woman in the Window
- Blood Red Sky
- Fear Street 1
- Fear Street 2
- Fear Street 3
- Gunpowder Milkshake
- Awake
- Oxygen
- The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
- Army of the Dead
- The Jungle Cruise
- Luca
- Becoming Cousteau
- The Rescue
- How Dogs got their Shapes
- Attica
- The Little Things
- No Sudden Move
- Godzilla Vs. Kong
- Mortal Combat
- Suicide Squad
- Reminiscence
- Malignant
- Cry Macho
