2021 EOTY Entertainment Lists • Page 5

Mini-series are tv shows idc - they are literally broken up into episodes.

Also The Beatles: Get Back... it's a tv show.

 

yeah, enjoyed that one a lot

 

yupp

 

Favorites of 2021:
Licorice Pizza
Titane
Red Rocket
Fear Street 1994
Bad Trip
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Inside

Did not like:
Halloween Kills
Many Saints of Newark
In the Heights
Britney vs. Spears
Woodstock 99

still need to see a lot.

 

Non 2021 Favorite Discoveries:
Queen of Diamonds
Scary Tales
Out of the Blue
Three O’Clock High
Ossos
Beau Travail
Don’t Panic
Pray For Death
Another Round
Showdown in Little Tokyo
Cop Land
Close-Up
The Hitman
Sledgehammer
Judgement Night
Winterbeast
GetEven
Scary Movie
Sonatine
What Happened Was…
Demon 2
Revenge of the Ninja
Video Violence
The Midnight Hour
Hauntedween
The Lovers on the Bridge
Mikey and Nicky

 

shoutout mikey and nicky, borderline perfect movie

 

It was certainly no HauntedWeen, but I enjoyed it

 

The Memoria release strategy is frustrating enough, but there isn't even a list of where it is going. It took a long time to figure out it goes to Chicago next, but that is it.

 

Great year for movies. So many worth mentioning, and a handful I still haven't seen yet (Memoria and Licorice Pizza are the two that I thought might make my list). The one that I'll praise briefly is Nine Days, which I haven't seen many people talk about. I honestly wasn't sure how I felt about it through the first half of the movie, but by the end I was very moved. A quiet exploration of what it means to be human, anchored by a great performance from Winston Duke (good work from Benedict Wong, Zazie Beetz, and Bill Skarsgård as well).

1. Dune
2. Bo Burnham: Inside
3. Nine Days
4. Found
5. The Suicide Squad
6. 14 Peaks
7. The Mitchells vs The Machines
8. Zack Snyder's Justice League
9. Derek DelGaudio’s In & of Itself
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home
11. The Matrix Resurrections
12. The French Dispatch
13. The Green Knight
14. Caveat
15. Saint Maud

So much good TV this year. Invincible is maybe a little too high because it feels like the most difficult to explain in the era of superhero fatigue. Even so, it felt fresh and subversive with its take on the genre, and I had a blast with it. The Underground Railroad feels like the easiest to praise, and yet it's one of the least seen shows on my list. I'll echo everyone else who has said it's incredible. Masterful work from Barry Jenkins and company.

1. I Think You Should Leave [S2]
2. Invincible [S1]
3. The Underground Railroad
4. How To With John Wilson [S2]
5. Dave [S2]
6. Rick and Morty [S5]
7. Hacks [S1]
8. Scenes From A Marriage
9. Ted Lasso [S2]
10. Last Chance U (ELAC)

Others worth mentioning: Dopesick, Squid Game, The Shrink Next Door, Loki, Only Murders In The Building, Love on the Spectrum, Mare of Eastown, Betty, The Chestnut Man, Reservation Dogs.

 

Finished up Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. The first story is fine, the second was very good, but the third was absolutely wonderful.

 

Reverse Shot's list finally comes out tomorrow.

It didn't get the coverage of Days or Drive My Car, but Beginning is a great foreign film that more people should see. Plus, it is the debut film of a female director, so you can support diversity as well. It is on MUBI.

 

Reverse Shot’s Best of 2021

Bring Memoria to the people already.

 

2021: Two Cents

 

There's still quite a few 2021 things I want to see (Memoria, Benedetta, Red Rocket, Station Eleven, Worst Person in the World) but at this point I've settled on my top 10 for 2021.

1. Bo Burnham: Inside (Bo Burnham)
2. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
3. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
4. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
5. The Underground Railroad (Barry Jenkins)
6. Titane (Julia Docournau)
   
7. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
8. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
9. Get Back (Peter Jackson)
10. Stray (Elizabeth Lo)

Honorable mention - Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma), C'Mon C'Mon (Mike Mills)