The Year So Far (2021)

[Bondo]

INDEX
1SO
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Corndog
etdoesgood
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Will

[Bondo]

One Night in Miami A
Shiva Baby A-
Little Fish B+
The Man Who Sold His Skin B+
Old B+
Our Ladies B+
Judas and the Black Messiah B+
Nine Days B+
Cruella B+
CODA B+
Pig B+
In The Heights B+
The Father B
The Forever Purge B
Shang-Chi B
Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It B
News of the World B
The Climb B
The Sparks Brothers B
Free Guy B
The Last Shift B
Undine B
The Mitchells vs. The Machines B
Minari B
Shithouse B-
Black Widow B-
Candyman B-
Quo Vadis, Aida? B-
The Mauritanian B-
The Disciple B-
76 Days B-
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions B-
Summer of Soul C+
Framing Britney Spears C+
Coming 2 America C+
Moxie! C+
Roadrunner C+
Mortal Kombat C+
Supernova C+
Stowaway C+
Raya and the Last Dragon C+
The White Tiger C
A Quiet Place Part II C
The Green Knight C
Best Summer Ever C
The Little Things C-
Godzilla vs. Kong C-
Plan B C-
Final Account C-
The Suicide Squad C-
Tom & Jerry C-
Zola C-
Annette D+
Demon Slayer: The Movie: Mugen Train D+
Music D

[goodguy]

Previously: 2020
* = Most recent additions (July)

------- 8/10 -------

*  1) Das Mädchen und die Spinne  (AKA The Girl and the Spider, Ramon & Silvan Zürcher)  Switzerland
   2) Si yo fuera el invierno mismo  (AKA If I Were the Winter Itself, Jazmín López)  Argentina

------- 7/10 -------

   3) Magic Mountains  (Urszula Antoniak)  Netherlands
   4) The World to Come  (Mona Fastvold)

------- 6/10 -------

   5) Promising Young Woman  (Emerald Fennell)  UK/US
   6) Dasatskisi  (AKA Beginning, Dea Kulumbegashvili)  Georgia
   7) Lux Ćterna  (Gaspar Noé)  France

------- 5/10 -------

   8) Nuevo orden  (AKA New Order, Michel Franco)  Mexico/France
   9) Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre  (AKA Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, Lili Horvát)  Hungary

------- 4/10 -------

  10) Dorogie tovarishchi  (AKA Dear Comrades, Andrey Konchalovskiy)  Russia
  11) Retfćrdighedens ryttere  (AKA Riders of Justice, Anders Thomas Jensen)  Denmark

------- 3/10 -------

  12) Cruella  (Craig Gillespie)
* 13) Black Widow  (Cate Shortland)

------- 1/10 -------

  14) Army of the Dead  (Zack Snyder)
* 15) Gunpowder Milkshake  (Navot Papushado)

[1SO]

★ ★ ★ - Good
The Father
The Suicide Squad
Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Annette
Jungle Cruise
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
In the Heights
Black Widow
Shiva Baby

★ ★ ★ - Okay
No Sudden Move
Cruella
No Sudden Move
Army of the Dead
Raya and the Last Dragon
In & Of Itself
Fear Street Part 2: 1978
Censor

★ ★ ˝
Nobody
The Empty Man
Judas and the Black Messiah
Fear Street Part 1: 1994
Oxygen
The White Tiger

★ ★
Zach Snyder's Justice League
Godzilla vs. Kong
Space Jam
Werewolves Within
The Green Knight
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Boss Level
The Tomorrow War
Luca
Cherry
Bad Trip
Saint Maud

★ ˝
Willy's Wonderland
Prisoners of the Ghostland

★
Malignant

[Eric/E.T.]

My 2020

I tried to do this so as not to be completely transparent on where I rated films throughout the year, but forget it, these are...

THE ERIC/E.T. 2021 FILM POWER RANKINGS

They won't be rigid at all, I tend to change things even as I write my Top 10's at the end of the year. But, still, this is just a fun exercise however you want to put it.

• In the Heights
• The Green Knight
• Gunda
• Annette
• Stray
• The Perfect Candidate
• Vivo
• Acasa, My Home
• Limbo
• The Father
• Shiva Baby
• Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain
• Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
• Summer of Soul
• Identifying Features
• Nomadland
• Beast Beast
• Little Fish
• Nine Days
• Summertime
• Lapsis
• Minari
• Quo Vadis, Aida?
• Promising Young Woman
• Plan B
• The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
• Godzilla v. Kong
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Oxygen
• The Djinn
• Rocks
• MLK/FBI
• Jakob's Wife
• The Dry
• Nobody
• Together Together
• Zola
• The Mitchell's vs. The Machines

[Corndog]

• Raya and the Last Dragon (Don Hall & Carlos Lopez Estrada)
• The Reason I Jump (Jerry Rothwell)
• Us Again (Zach Parrish)
• The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)
• Acasa, My Home (Radu Ciorniciuc)
• Land (Robin Wright)
• Malcolm & Marie (Sam Levinson)
• Supernova (Harry Macqueen)
• Young Hearts (Sarah & Zachary Ray Sherman)
• Test Pattern (Shatara Michelle Ford)
• Breaking Fast (Mike Mosallam)
• Apollo 11: Quarantine (Todd Douglas Miller)
• MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard)
• Palmer (Fisher Stevens)
• Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum)
• Truth to Power (Garin Hovannisian)
• Pelé (David Tryhorn & Ben Nicholas)
• Red Dot (Alain Darborg)
• Framing Britney Spears (Samantha Stark)
• The Dig (Simon Stone)
• Coming 2 America (Craig Brewer)
• Pixie (Barnaby Thompson)
• The Wanting Mare (Nicholas Ashe Bateman)
• Finding 'Ohana (Jude Weng)
• No Man's Land (Conor Allyn)
• Boogie (Eddie Huang)
• I Care a Lot (J Blakeson)
• Cherry (Anthony & Joe Russo)
• Outside the Wire (Mikael Hafstrom)
• The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Ian Samuels)
• Flora & Ulysses (Lena Khan)
• Al Davis vs. the NFL (Ken Rodgers)
• Rock Camp: The Movie (Douglas Blush & Renee Barron)
• Penguin Bloom (Glendyn Ivin)
• Flinch (Cameron Van Hoy)
• #LIKE (Sarah Pirozek)
• Safer at Home (Will Wernick)
• Bliss (Mike Cahill)
• Tyger Tyger (Kerry Mondragon)

[Will]

Holding this place. Right here. This one is mine.

[dusty bottoms]

1.   Nomadland
2.   Quo Vadis, Aida?
3.   After Love
4.   Beginning
5.   Sound of Metal
6.   Dear Comrades
7.   Limbo
8.   Shiva Baby
9.   Apples
10.   Song without a Name
11.   The Father
12.   Minari
13.   Preparations to be together for an unknown period of time
14.   Bo Burnham Inside
15.   Oxygen
16.   Surge
17.   The Killing of Two Lovers
18.   Censor
19.   The Woman who Ran
20.   Holler
21.   The Mole Agent
22.   Cowboys
23.   Land

[cfilipec]

My personal Top 20, up to this point.

I know it's missing some probable highlights of the year, but it's been tough to find the time since I went back to school... Hopefully, with job and academic vacations in August, I get to catch up with many.

1.   Nomadland;
2.   Shiva Baby;
3.   Bo Burnham: Inside;
4.   One Night in Miami;
5.   The Father;
6.   Minari;
7.   Dear Comrades!;
8.   Dead Pigs;
9.   Riders of Justice;
10.   The Dig;
11.   The Disciple;
12.   A Quiet Place Part II;
13.   Judas and the Black Messiah;
14.   Acasă, My Home;
15.   Black Widow;
16.   The Mitchells vs. The Machines;
17.   News of the World;
18.   Promising Young Woman;
19.   Fathom;
20.   The White Tiger.

[Eric/E.T.]

My personal Top 20, up to this point.

I know it's missing some probable highlights of the year, but it's been tough to find the time since I went back to school... Hopefully, with job and academic vacations in August, I get to catch up with many.

Hello, where was this member's welcome wagon, jdc?  I'm sensing possibility here!