The Best Films of 2021

Dumont, Apichatpong, and ... Peter Jackson?

1. France (Bruno Dumont)

Bruno Dumont’s France is, in one sense, one of his most accessible and palatable films, tinged with the satirical, comic, and melodramatic, and far removed from both the bleak austerity that characterizes much of his work as well as the more playfully experimental flourishes of his more recent work. Or is it? France is almost like a…