Best Movies I’ve Seen in 2021

“Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. Because we feel low we sink in the boredom, relax in the irresponsibility, and maybe grin for a minute when the gunman lines up three men and kills them with a single bullet, which is no more “real” to us than the nursery-school story of the brave little tailor.” Pauline Kael. Trash, Art, and the Movies. It’s a nice read. Even though I don’t know all the movies she mentioned in it.

By the way, I think the writers of Deadpool stole from Pauline Kael that one specific scene in the movie. You know which scene I’m talking about. And speaking of movie scenes, here are some of my favorites from the best movies I’ve seen in 2021.

Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

Hardware (1990)

Psychokinesis (2018)

Invincible (2021)

A Copy of My Mind (2015)

The Wedding Guest (2019)

From Beijing with Love (1994)

The Great Silence (1968)

Apache Woman (1976)

The Mercenary (1968)

The Lone Ranger (2013)

Friends (1971)

The Game (1997)

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Boss Level (2021)

The Night Comes For Us (2018)

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Honor Thy Father (2015)

Transistor Love Story (2001)

Joni's Promise (2005)

Ang Babaeng Walang Pakiramdam (2021)

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)

The Mercenary (1968)

The Eroticist a.k.a. The Senator Likes Women (1972)

Ms .45 (1981)

Hardware (1990)

Basic Instinct (1992)

The Eroticist a.k.a. The Senator Likes Women (1972)

The Last Mercenary (2021)

Daredevil (2015)

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Evil Dead II (1987)

On the Job: The Missing 8 (2021)

Code of Hunting (1983)

Anna (2019)

From Beijing with Love (1994)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Joni's Promise (2005)

Anna (2019)

Bad Bananas on the Silver Screen (1983)

Ms .45 (1981)

Free Guy (2021)

Pig (2021)

Operation Condor a.k.a. Superfly (1991)

Bad Bananas on the Silver Screen (1983)

The Nice Guys (2016)

The Matrix: Resurrections (2021)

Free Guy (2021)

On the Job: The Missing 8 (2021)

Nightshooters (2018)

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)