Recommended Movies of 2021

​Hello, all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! As a movie year progresses, we’re all very eager to see what the best films of that year will be, but sometimes movies worth checking out slip through even the Honorable Mentions selections under consideration. The Friendly Film Fan likes to take stock each year and highlight some of those films that, regardless of variance in quality, we think are nonetheless worth checking out. Some of these films may have appeared on other lists (such as the Underrated Films list or the Disappointing Films list), but that doesn’t disqualify them from appearing here if we think they’re worth another look. The only films not listed here are those in consideration for Best of the Year – or just the ones we didn’t like. All that said, there’s still plenty here to see. Here is The Friendly Film Fan’s list of Recommended Movies from 2021. 

• 7 Days
• Annette
• Ascension
• Being the Ricardos
• Belfast
• Belle
• Black Widow
• Censor
• A Chiara
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
• The Courier
• Cruella
• Cyrano
• Don’t Look Up
• Dream Horse
• The Dry
• Encanto
• Eternals
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• The French Dispatch
• The Hand of God
• The Harder They Fall
• Holler
• House of Gucci
• The Humans
• In the Earth
• In the Same Breath
• Jockey
• Jungle Cruise
• The Killing of Two Lovers
• The King’s Man
• Lamb
• Land
• The Last Duel
• Little Fish
• Luca
• Malignant
• The Matrix: Resurrections
• The Night House
• Nightmare Alley
• Nobody
• The Novice
• No Sudden Move
• No Time to Die
• The Nowhere Inn
• The Paper Tigers
• Passing
• Petite Maman
• Pleasure
• Profile
• A Quiet Place: Part II
• Raya and the Last Dragon
• Riders of Justice
• Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
• Ron’s Gone Wrong
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• The Sparks Brothers
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Stillwater
• Test Pattern
• Those Who Wish Me Dead
• Till Death
• Together
• Together Together
• Wild Indian
• Worth
• Zola

And those are my recommendations for movies from 2021 that didn’t quite make the cut for “Best Of” consideration (or that I just liked to a certain degree). Which of these are you most eager to check out? Are there any you’ve already seen? Let me know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
 
- The Friendly Film Fan