Evaluation of the year[edit]
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. 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. The biggest successes, as usual, have been superhero and franchise films. 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 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. On the one hand, a streaming release is a wide release, happily accessible to all (or to all subscribers). On the other, an online release usually registers as a nonevent, and many of the great movies hardly make a blip on the mediascape despite being more accessible than ever."[1]
Worldwide, the global box office ended the year at $21.4 billion, a figure 78% higher than 2020.
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China was the highest-grossing country of 2021 with $7.3 billion.
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In the United States and Canada, theaters earned an estimated $4.55 billion throughout 2021, a statistic 100% higher than 2020's $2.28 billion and 60% lower than 2019's $11.4 billion.
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List of American films of 2021
List of Australian films of 2021
List of Bangladeshi films of 2021
List of British films of 2021
List of Canadian films of 2021
List of Chinese films of 2021
List of French films of 2021
List of Hong Kong films of 2021
List of Indian films of 2021
List of Bhojpuri films of 2021
List of Japanese films of 2021
List of Nigerian films of 2021
List of Philippine films of 2021
List of Russian films of 2021
List of South Korean films of 2021
List of Spanish films of 2021
List of Sri Lankan films of 2021
– Showbiz Spy