THE BEST FILMS OF 2021 (SO FAR)
Following the delays due to COVID-19, we collected all the premieres and sorted them from worst to best. What will be the best movie of 2021?
Due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, many projects and films have had their release dates delayed, so we will have a very complete 2021 .
And that is counting on the restrictions not being tightened and forcing a restructuring (again) of the entire calendar.
Waiting for more news, and always in constant update, we draw up this calendar with the most outstanding films of the coming year, with their release dates and some reasons why you should be waiting for them like May water .
Films ranging from the most successful franchises (Marvel, James Bond, Fast & Furious, DC Comics, Kingsman ...) to the most anticipated 'indies' (the multi-award-winning 'Nomadland' and 'Druk (Another Round)' or the terrifying 'Relic', for example), and that without forgetting the new animated Disney adventures (very good looking is' Raya and the last dragon ') or the most powerful doses of nostalgia (' Top Gun ',' Ghostbusters', ' West Side Story '...). Of course, there are premieres for all tastes, all ages and all the wonderful moments that 2021 will give us .
And, after spending months in confinement and experiencing great uncertainty about the state of the world, We can't wait any longer to slip into a dark movie theater and dream of other stories beyond the couch at home.
Okay, if it's a Warner movie, maybe you don't even need to move from there .
10 - Palmer
Release date : January 29 (Apple TV +)
Although it has gone unnoticed in the Apple catalog, this movie starring Justin Timberlake is totally vindicable.
Directed by Fisher Stevens, it tells the story of an ex-con and ex-soccer player who returns home to rebuild his life, which will involve adopting an abandoned child.
Under the maxims of social cinema and the 'indies' airs, the film creates a personal portrait that speaks of the weight of a past that never leaves us, but also of a future that can be full of hope.
9 - The excavation
Release date : January 29 (Netflix)
This Simon Stone film, based on the novel by John Preston, tells the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation in 1939, where hundreds of objects were found on an Anglo-Saxon age funeral ship that was key to understanding the past in the United Kingdom.
This is how we meet (and vindicate) Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), who together with landlord Pretty (Carey Mulligan) unearth these treasures while dealing with personal problems and the shadow of World War II. A film full of classicism and beautiful images.
8 - Hope
Release date : January 22.
This Norwegian film directed by Maria Sødahl is full of an honest and authentic intensity, that catches between glances with a melodrama little attached to the vices of the genre.
It shows the relationship between a couple of artists who experience a tragic moment when she is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer the day before Christmas, causing them both to put their lives in perspective and fan a flame that has long been fading.
7 - Bajocero
Release date : January 29 (Netflix).
The Spanish thriller is going through a very sweet moment, and the proof of this is this film by Lluís Quílez, which became the most watched on Netflix globally in the week of its premiere.
The story follows an armored police van that is robbed during a prison transfer by a mysterious gunman.
Thrown in the middle of the road and with the tension escalating between the prisoners and the policeman played by Javier Gutiérrez, the film turns into a fight for survival full of surprises and narrative twists.
6 - The painter and the thief
Release date : February 5.
This Norwegian documentary by Benjamin Ree contains one of the most fascinating stories of the year.
The Czech naturalist painter Barbora Kysilkova enters into a relationship with a man who participated in the theft of her works, Karl-Bertil Nordland , to whom she decides to dedicate a series of portraits, and he accepts.
A story about friendship and the connection between two people who did not seem destined to be related.
5 - White tiger
Release date : January 22 (Netflix).
Forget 'Slumdog Millionaire' once: the true Indian experience is in this Ramin Bahrani film, chronicling the epic rise of Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) from a poor village to corporate stardom in the most modern face of La India.
His brilliant strategy was recounted in Aravind Adiga's eponymous book and now comes to life on screen with a great sense of humor and a keen eye for social commentary on the dire economic inequalities that prevail in the country.
4 - One night in Miami ...
Release date : January 15 (Amazon Prime Video).
Based on the Kemp Powers play and directed by actress Regina King, who makes her directing debut, this film takes us to a gathering of great icons: boxer Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali), the activist leader Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and sportsman Jim Brown lock themselves in a motel room in 1964 to discuss the different ways they each fight for the rights of the African-American community. The result is very discursive and fascinating.
3 - Swallow
Release date : February 9 (Movistar +).
This Carlo Mirabella-Davis debut is fantastic: it tells the story of a young housewife (brilliantly played by Haley Bennett ) who spends her days alone doing homework and who, when she discovers that she is pregnant, begins to feel like she is losing control of your life.
Your solution? Begin to swallow small objects. What begins as a way to do something unexpected ends up becoming a rebellion of the protagonist against her role as wife, mother and vase.
The director plays with colors, sounds, textures and reflects on the capacity of the female body to be a whole battlefield.
2 - News from the great world
Release date : January 29 (February 10 on Netflix).
Directed by Paul Greengrass and based on the novel by Paulette Jiles , it tells the journey of a war veteran, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd ( Tom Hanks ), who has to go on a journey to take a girl ( Helena Zegel ) to his rightful home.
A western with classic airs and modern sensibilities, where Hanks and Zegel shine and the Wild West is now an excuse to talk about the founding values of the United States.
1 - Fragments of a woman
Release date : January 7 (Netflix).
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, this film belongs to its actresses. Vanessa Kirby plays a woman on the brink of collapse, first with a lengthy birth scene that opens the film, and then with the tragic consequences of that moment.
On the other hand, Ellen Burstyn plays her mother, and manages to elevate the film in her brief (but intense) appearances.
Altogether, a film about how to overcome grief, about the need to seek justice where there is only tragedy and the hopelessness of a relationship that there is no bridge that unites.