Lost Futures
Since posting the (admittedly severely limited) best-of list down below, I've seen three more 2021 movies of note: Drive My Car, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and The Lost Daughter. The first is not only far and away the best film I've seen that was released last year, it's one of the best, and most genuinely profound, films I've ever seen (no hyperbole intended); one of the true masterpieces of this still-young century. The second is thoroughly terrific –– funny, touching, and very on-point without ever being on-the-nose. The third one I'm more split on, admiring the uniformly strong performances and the main, present-tense narrative, but less so the cliché-ridden flashback scenes and ultimately too-neat schematic structure.
