My favorite movie of 2021 was, by far, Dune. Visual spectacle, thought-provoking, and emotionally stirring. It’s possible that the 2024 sequel will slip and make me regret this choice, but there really was little competition.
Other good movies of the year: Pig, Licorice Pizza, The Black Phone, Last Night in Soho, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and The Mitchells vs the Machines. And West Side Story by Spielberg is still queued up for me.
The weirdest one was the French movie Titane.
I’m sure there were some terrible movies out there, but I didn’t see the worst.