2021 Films, Streaming, Music

Films, television and music circa 2021 that were well made, emotional or entertaining. It’s not a best of or top ten. It’s just stuff that moved me during the last year, including a few things that came out the year before that I loved.

FILMS

Macbeth

Nightmare Alley

Dune

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The French Dispatch

No Time to Die

The Card Counter

Passing

No Sudden Move

Nobody

Cop Shop

Wrath of Man

TELEVISION (Cable, Streaming)

Narcos

Succession

Squid Game

What If?

Gangs of London

White Lotus

BLM

NON-FICTION VISUALS (Documentaries, Series)

Epicenters

Velvet Underground

The Spark Brothers’

Procession

In the Same Breath

The First Wave

Get Back

Pass the Mic

Summer of Soul

MUSIC (Not just recordings, but live performance by)

Silk Sonic

Jazmine Sullivan

Esperanza Spalding

Robert Glasper

Cima Funk

Adele

H.E.R.

Lucky Daye

Miguel

Snoh Aalegra

Maxwell