Kyle Turner panned Call Me By Your Name, but then it found a prominent place on other lists. Similarly, The Shape of Water was a consensus pick, though Dom Sinacola recently wrote about how much he dislikes the way Guillermo del Toro tells stories. Which is to say: if you’re pissed or elated about anything being on here or not being on here, then chances are at least one Paste Movies staff writer agrees with you.įor example: A Cure for Wellness, our #50 film, was despised by a few staff members, but it was Oktay Ege Kozak’s favorite movie of the year. The goal was and has always been to provide an overview of staff tastes, however much individual lists differed.
Each staff writer put together a top 20 of their favorite movies of the year, contributing to an aggregate list based on points assigned according to where each film ranked. Round it out with some awe-inspiring AWARDS SZN stand-outs and forward-thinking directorial debuts and you have a much-broader batch of films to celebrate mid-year-much more than we did in 2020! Grab your popcorn and dive into the best movies of 2021 (so far).One idea to ultimately keep in mind, as you count down the best movies of the year with us, is that this list is the result of math. We’re extremely light on superheroes (it’s still early), but we have some fantastical battles and edgy action-comedies to keep us entertained while we wait. Some highly anticipated projects left us wanting more, while others taught us about atrocities across the United States of America. The hope is that, along the way, we get some amazing films to get lost within.Īnd so far, 2021 is delivering. It may be the year that we get more of the same. This could be the year that everything changes. Well, it’s 2021, and we’ve got an awkward year of cinema that’s trying to recoup on the monies lost due to a global pandemic while navigating a growing demand for on-demand streaming content.
COVID-19 kicked the idea of heading into a theater to see movies to the curb, which resulted in many movies being held back while Hollywood figured out alternative measures, which ended up either being “drop it on a streaming service” or “wait until 2021”. Think about it: Before the spring of 2020 was done, many (incorrectly) predicted that the theater business was done. On the low, 2021 is shaping up to be one of the more important years in the history of cinema.
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