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    Critics’ choice of 2021

    Dec 19, 2021 5 minutes

    The hard thing about reviewing 2021’s year in cinema is the “in cinema” bit. The pandemic era continues to play havoc with the moviegoing business. There have been supply-chain issues as studios and distributors have held back releases such as Daniel Craig’s final Bond outing or Dune, or diverted them to their streaming departments. The global film-festival calendar remains out of whack and the New Zealand International Film Festival’s return from an online-only event in 2020 to cinemas last month ran into the protracted Auckland lockdown. That has also affected a run of New Zealand feature releases, some of which arrived in cinemas just as the “closed until further notice” signs went up and some of which appear in our following list.

    But still, there’s streaming. Well, it’s possibly telling that of our

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