The 10 best movies of 2021: You haven’t heard of the year’s best film. I almost guarantee it
This is how the year went. It started with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: the most enraged, and enraging, nonfiction film of 2021, instantly reframed by competing 24-hour news cycles as cautionary mythology. Homegrown terrorism? Or just desserts for the unjustly elected? It depended on your cable news of choice.
It was the worst kind of cultural curtain raiser. Now, at the other end of the year, we’re going out with a mainstream Hollywood reminder — terrific, by the way, if “West Side Story” is your thing — that the good old days millions are desperate to
