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Best Movies of 2021, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
152 films from 2021 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Spider-Man: No Way Home ('2021), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Unforgivable, 7.2 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: No Way Home '2021 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 93% | 71 | 7.9 | Jon Watts |
| 2 | Dune '2021 | Sci-Fi | 8.0 | 83% | 74 | 7.8 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 3 | Zack Snyder's Justice League '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.9 | 71% | 54 | 8.1 | Zack Snyder |
| 4 | CODA '2021 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.0 | 94% | 72 | 7.9 | Sian Heder |
| 5 | Nobody '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.4 | 83% | 64 | 7.9 | Ilya Naishuller |
| 6 | The Worst Person in the World '2021 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Joachim Trier |
| 7 | King Richard '2021 | Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 76 | 7.6 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 8 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines '2021 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | 81 | 7.8 | Mike Rianda |
| 9 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 92% | 71 | 7.5 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 10 | No Time to Die '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.3 | 83% | 68 | 7.3 | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 11 | Friends: The Reunion '2021 | Documentary / Comedy | 8.0 | 67% | - | 7.8 | Ben Winston |
| 12 | Luca '2021 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 91% | 71 | 7.8 | Enrico Casarosa |
| 13 | Cruella '2021 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | 75% | 59 | 8.0 | Craig Gillespie |
| 14 | tick, tick... BOOM! '2021 | Drama / Musical | 7.5 | 87% | 74 | 7.6 | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 15 | The Suicide Squad '2021 | Action / Comedy | 7.2 | - | 72 | 7.4 | James Gunn |
| 16 | Nomadland '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 93% | 87 | 7.2 | Chloé Zhao |
| 17 | The Last Duel '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 85% | 67 | 7.4 | Ridley Scott |
| 18 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.8 | 96% | 71 | 8.1 | Sunghoo Park |
| 19 | A Quiet Place Part II '2021 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 7.2 | 91% | 71 | 7.4 | John Krasinski |
| 20 | Raya and the Last Dragon '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 93% | 74 | 7.8 | Don Hall |
| 21 | Encanto '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | - | 75 | 7.6 | Byron Howard |
| 22 | Don't Look Up '2021 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.1 | - | 49 | 7.1 | Adam McKay |
| 23 | Minari '2021 | Drama | 7.4 | 98% | 89 | 7.3 | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 24 | Free Guy '2021 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 80% | 62 | 7.4 | Shawn Levy |
| 25 | Judas and the Black Messiah '2021 | Drama | 7.4 | 96% | 84 | 7.3 | Shaka King |
| 26 | Drive My Car '2021 | Drama | 7.5 | 97% | 91 | 7.4 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
| 27 | The Mauritanian '2021 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 75% | 53 | 7.4 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 28 | Wrath of Man '2021 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 68% | 57 | 7.6 | Guy Ritchie |
| 29 | Sing 2 '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.3 | 72% | 49 | 7.8 | Garth Jennings |
| 30 | Belfast '2021 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | 75 | 7.0 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 31 | The Unforgivable '2021 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 40% | 41 | 7.4 | Nora Fingscheidt |
| 32 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun '2021 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 75% | 75 | 7.0 | Wes Anderson |
| 33 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 34 | West Side Story '2021 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.1 | 91% | 85 | 6.9 | Steven Spielberg |
| 35 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife '2021 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.0 | 63% | 45 | 7.3 | Jason Reitman |
| 36 | Last Night in Soho '2021 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 75% | 65 | 7.3 | Edgar Wright |
| 37 | Nightmare Alley '2021 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 80% | 70 | 6.9 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 38 | The Dig '2021 | Drama | 7.1 | 87% | 73 | 6.8 | Simon Stone |
| 39 | The Hand of God '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 83% | 76 | 7.5 | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 40 | Palmer '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 72% | 53 | 8.1 | Fisher Stevens |
| 41 | The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.2 | 100% | 67 | 7.4 | Han Kwang Il |
| 42 | The White Tiger '2021 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 76 | 7.0 | Ramin Bahrani |
| 43 | Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time '2021 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Drama | 8.0 | 100% | 85 | 8.2 | Katsuichi Nakayama |
| 44 | The Power of the Dog '2021 | Drama / Western | 6.8 | 94% | 89 | 6.7 | Jane Campion |
| 45 | Finch '2021 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 6.9 | 74% | 57 | 7.8 | Miguel Sapochnik |
| 46 | Pig '2021 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 96% | 82 | 6.6 | Michael Sarnoski |
| 47 | Wish Dragon '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 71% | 59 | 7.8 | Chris Appelhans |
| 48 | Ron's Gone Wrong '2021 | Animation / Sci-Fi / Comedy | 7.1 | - | 65 | 7.8 | Sarah Smith |
| 49 | Parallel Mothers '2021 | Drama | 7.1 | 96% | 88 | 6.8 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 50 | The Fallout '2021 | Drama | 7.0 | 90% | 84 | 7.5 | Megan Park |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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