The French Dispatch (2021) *****

Arguably Wes Anderson's greatest film.

Red Rocket (2021) ****

Bad Roads (2021) ****

The Worst Person In The World (2021) ****

Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn (2021) ****

Brilliant Romanian film about a teacher who gets in trouble when a sex tape she made with her husband finds itself on the Internet. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

Benedetta (2021) ****

In The Mirror (2021) ****

Superb experimental film from Latvia, a twisted adaptation of "Snow White" directed by Laila Pakalniņa.

Illusions perdues (2021) ****

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Ahed's Knee (2021) ****

Licorice Pizza (2021) ****

1970 (2021) ****

Titane (2021) ****

Mothering Sunday (2021) ****

tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) ***

In The Heights (2021) ***

Encanto (2021) ***

Free Guy (2021) ***

"The Matrix" meets "The Truman Show" meets "Ready Player One".

No Time To Die (2021) ***

Excellent James Bond movie, with a bravura comic performance by Ana de Armas, a more subtle, but equally memorable supporting role by Lashana Lynch, spectacular scenery, great action scenes and a very unusual ending.

Being The Ricardos (2021) ***

Excellent film about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. 

The Tender Bar (2021) ***

Directed by George Clooney.

CODA (2021) ***

A very good American remake of "La Famille Belier" (2014).

Luca (2021) ***

King Richard (2021) ***

Impressive drama about tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams, with Will Smith in an Oscar-winning performance as their hard-driving father.

West Side Story (2021) ***

An inferior remake of the 1961 Oscar-winning classic. Still impressive for its great songs and superbly choreographed musical numbers.

Malcolm And Marie (2021) ***

Raya And The Last Dragon (2021) ***

Lead Me Home (2021) ***

Powerful 40-minute documentary about homelessness in America.

The Voyeurs (2021) ***

Nightmare Alley (2021) ***

Onoda 10,000 Nights In The Jungle (2021) ***

Aline (2021) ***

Serre moi fort (2021) ***

Annette (2021) ***

Eiffel (2021) **

Bac Nord (2021) **

France (2021) **

Memoria (2021) **

A Colombian film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and starring Tilda Swinton.

Noche de fuego (2021) ***

Compartment No 6 (2021) ***

The Hand Of God (2021) ***

Lingui, les liens sacrés (2021) **

A pregnant Muslim teenage girl in Chad tries to have an abortion.

Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom (2021) ***

Beautiful film from Bhutan.

Lamb (2021) ***

Flee (2021) **

Quite a rarity, an animated documentary film from Denmark, which managed a trifecta of Oscar nominations: as Best Animated Feature, as Best Documentary Feature and as Best Foreign Film.

Parallel Mothers (2021) ***

Rhino (2021) ***

Days (2021) ***

The Girl And The Spider (2021) ***

Gluck (2021) ***

A Hero (2021) ***

Not as impressive as Asghar Farhadi's previous masterworks ("About Elly", "A Separation", "Le Passe" and "The Salesman"), but still a very fine Iranian melodrama about personal integrity and social prejudices.

Drive My Car (2021) ***

All My Puny Sorrows (2021) ***