2021 was certainly a challenging year.
My favorite quote of the year, and I don't remember where I saw it was "the future eats the present."
Here’s a ranking of everything I saw this year, largely in the throes of a knee replacement, and you will see that there is a lot I loved. Only saw 3 movies in a theater, which saddens me. Hope this helps when you sit down at night wondering what to watch.
Movies
1, CODA – 10
2. Come From Away – 10
3. Leave No Trace – 10
4. Promising Young Woman - 10
5. Shiva Baby – 10
6. The Father – 10
7. Minari – 10
8. The Wife – 10
9. Incendies – 10
10.West Side Story – 9
Don’t Look Up – 9
Tick, Tick…Boom - 9
Power of the Dog - 9
Soul - 9
Always Be My Maybe – 9
One Night in Miami – 9
Never Rarely Sometimes Always - 9
I Care A Lot – 9
Nomadland – 9
Greyhound - 9
No Time to Die – 9
Blood Red Sky - 9
Red Notice – 9
Doctor Sleep - 9
Palm Springs - 9
The United States vs Billie Holiday - 8
A Quiet Place Part 2 - 8
In the Heights – 8
Being the Ricardo’s - 8
First Cow - 8
The Keeping Room - 8
A Most Violent Year - 8
Enemy - 8
The Tomorrow War – 8
Without Remorse – 8
Mix Tape - 7
The Little Things - 7
Irrational Man – 7
Homefront - 7
News of the World – 8
Chris Rock – Total Blackout – 8
Magic in the Moonlight - 7
Barb and Starr Go To Vista Del Mar – 7
The Ice Road - 7
Cry Macho - 7
Gunpowder Milkshake – 7
Wonder Wheel – 7
A Rainy Day in New York – 6
The Prom - 6
Café Society - 6
Jolt - 6
Dave Chappelle: The Closer – 5
Under the Skin - 5
To Rome with Love - 3
6 Underground - 1
Classics
The Seven Samurai – 10
Lawrence of Arabia - 10
The Red Shoes – 10
The General – 10
Aguirre Wrath of God - 10
Paths of Glory – 10
Blood Simple - 10
The Last Picture Show - 9
Rio Bravo - 9
My Darling Clementine – 9
Wild Strawberries - 9
Phantom Thread – 9
The Paper Chase - 9
New Orleans – 9
Sunrise: A Tale of
Two Humans - 9
Late Spring - 8
Sherlock Jr – 8
L’Atalante - 8
Brief Encounter – 7
The Hypnotic Eye - 6
Documentaries
Get Back – 10 (Disney+)
Summer of Soul – 10 (Hulu)
The Crime of the Century – 10 (HBO)
Music Box: Woodstock
’99: Peace, Love, and Rage – 10 (HBO)
Collective – 10 (Hulu)
McCartney 3,2,1 – 10 (Hulu)
Time – 10 (Amazon)
My Octopus Teacher – 10 (Netflix)
Inventing David Geffen – 10 (Netflix)
Stop Making Sense – 10 (VUDU)
Allen v Farrow – 10 (HBO)
Soul of America – 10 (HBO)
The Way Down: God,
Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin – 10 (HBO)
Muhammed Ali – 10 (PBS)
Tina – 10 (HBO)
The Sparks Brothers – 10 (Netflix)
Mr A & Mr. M – 10 (Epix)
The Bee Gees: How Can
You Mend a Broken Heart – 9 (HBO)
Roadrunner – 9 (CNN)
Music Box: Jagged,
Kenny G, and Mr. Saturday Night
Pretend It’s a City – 9 (Netflix)
The Mole Agent – 9
David Crosby:
Remember My Name – 9 (Starz)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi – 9
1971: The Year tha
Music Changed Everything - 9
Untold: Malic in the Palace
– 9 (Netflix)
The Ron Artest Story – 9 (Showtime)
Every Little Step – 9 (Netflix)
Tiger – 9 (HBO)
Val – 8 (Amazon)
Framing Britney Spears - 8
Count Me In – 8 (Netflix)
Bitchin’: The Sound
and Fury of Rick Jams – 8 (Showtime)
Miles Davis: Birth of
the Cool – 8 (Netflix)
TV Series
Mare of Easttown – 10 (HBO)
Deadwood – 10 (HBO)
Brockmire – 10 (Hulu)
Lie to Me – 10 (Hulu)
Broadchurch – 10 (Netflix)
Ted Lasso – 9 (Apple+)
The Kominsky Method – 9 (Netflix)
Only Murders in the Building – 9 (Amazon)
Hacks – 9 (HBO)
Cobra Kai – 9 (Netflix)
Condor – 9 (Epix)
Your Honor – 0 (Showtime)
The Ozzies
Best Picture – CODA
Best Actor: Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick, … Boom
Best Actress: Rachel Zegler, West Side Story
Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur, CODA
Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Best Director: Sian Heder - CODA
Best Documentary: Get
Back
The Lizzies
Best TV Series: Mare
of Easttown:
Best Actor: Jason
Bateman, Ozark
Best Actress: Kate
Winslet, Mare of Easttown
Best Supporting Actor:
Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso
Best Supporting Actress:
Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown
- Come from Away, a wistful 9/11 musical giving us hope for the human race;
- Get Back, Fab Four Forever;
- Bo Burnham's Inside, pure genius;
- CODA, delightful /\ insightful;
- tick, tick...BOOM, Andrew Garfield and Lin-Manuel Miranda unleash;
- Power of the Dog, a slow burn with a powerhouse performance;
- The Hand of God, a beautiful Fellini-like reminiscence;
- Saint Maud, A holy hell of a character study;
- Encanto, Lin-Manuel (again!) along with the best animated hair ever;
- Nightmare Alley, just enough del Toro to edge it onto the list...
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