


On the one hand, a streaming release is a wide release, happily accessible to all (or to all subscribers). The shift toward streaming was already under way when the pandemic struck, and as the trend has accelerated it’s had a paradoxical effect on movies. The French Dispatch has done respectably in wide release, and Licorice Pizza is doing superbly on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, but few, if any, of the year’s best films are likely to reach high on the box-office charts. The biggest successes, as usual, have been superhero and franchise films. The reopening of theatres has brought many great movies-some of which were postponed from last year-to the big screen, but fewer people to see them. In his article highlighting the best movies of 2021, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "From an artistic perspective, 2021 has been an excellent cinematic vintage, yet the bounty is shadowed by an air of doom.
CODA 2021 SHOWTIMES MOVIE
2021 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming.
