Maybe we should just toss the rulebook out the window and count everything. That’s what I’m doing. Pandemic be damned. Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux said recently of this last miserable year in cinema, “2019 was a great year for films, but 2020 was the most disastrous year in the history of the cinema.” Agreed. But it’s not like 2021 has been any better …

  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)2) Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)aa3) First Cow (Kelly Reinhardt)3) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV;Turner Ross)4) Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) 5) The Truffle Hunters (Michael Dweck; Gregory Kershaw)6) The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)7) Bad Education (Cory Finley)8) Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)9) The Assistant (Kitty Green) 10) Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho) Contribute Hire me

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