The InSneider's Top 10 Films and TV Shows of 2021, Plus His Most Anticipated of 2022

You know the drill. This Top 10 is my ever-evolving personal list of favorites in both film and television. I also included my Worst 10 films of the year, plus lists of my most anticipated movies and shows in 2021. Enjoy!

TheInSneider's Top 10 Movies of 2021...

1. CODA

2. DEAR MR. BRODY

3. THE RESCUE

4. FLEE

5. TIGER

6. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

7. KING RICHARD

8. (tie) AFTER THE MURDER OF ALBERT LIMA and UNTOLD: CRIME & PENALTIES

9. PLEASURE

10. (tie) RUN HIDE FIGHT and COMING HOME IN THE DARK

Honorable Mentions: The Alpinist, American Skin, Copshop, Derek Del Gaudio's In & Of Itself, Luca, Old Henry, Red Rocket, Shiva Baby, Silo, Stillwater, Violation, Worth

And now for The InSneider's Worst 10 Movies of 2021. Apologies in advance!

10. THE GUILTY

9. MALIGNANT

8. CHERRY

7. THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

6. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

5. SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY

4. HOME SWEET HOME ALONE

3. WILLY'S WONDERLAND

2. DEMONIC

1. REMINISCENCE

Dishonorable Mention: GUNDA - I don't know who could possibly have the patience for this dialogue-free movie, but you're better off just going to your local petting farm.

Don't forget the Top 10 Movies I Missed in 2021...

1. Drive My Car
2. Quo Vadis, Aida?
3. In the Heights
4. The Hand of God
5. Parallel Mothers
6. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
7. Language Lessons
8. Bergman Island
9. Benedetta
10. Sweat

And finally, my Top 22 Most Anticipated Movies of 2022. An asterisk indicates that this film also appeared on my Most Anticipated of 2021 list.

1. The Batman
2. Scream
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Mission: Impossible 7*
5. The Fabelmans
6. Top Gun: Maverick*
7. The Killer
8. Nope 
9. Lightyear
10. Bullet Train

11. Untitled David O. Russell

12. Asteroid City

13. Disappointment Blvd.

14. Bros

15. Elvis

16. Babylon

17. The Northman

18. The Whale

19. She Said

20. Next Goal Wins*

21. Infinity Pool

22. Bodies Bodies Bodies

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And now for the TELEVISION portion of this year-end list!

The InSneider's Top 25 TV Shows of 2021

1. Mare of Easttown (HBO)

2. Dr. Death (Peacock)

3. Beartown (HBO)

4. Hacks (HBO Max)

5. Squid Game (Netflix)

6. The Investigation (HBO)

7. Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)

8. The White Lotus (HBO)

9. Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

10. The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (Disney+)

11. Dexter: New Blood (Showtime)

12. Chucky (Syfy)

13. Dave S2 (FX on Hulu)

14. Ted Lasso S2 (Apple)

15. True Story (Netflix)

16. You S3 (Netflix)

17. Night Stalker (Netflix)

18. Invincible (Amazon)

19. The Line (Apple)

20. Narcos: Mexico S3 (Netflix) 

21. The Mosquito Coast (Apple)

22. Them (Amazon)

23. Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+)

24. The Premise (FX on Hulu)

25. Curb Your Enthusiasm S11 (HBO)

And now for The Top 10 TV Shows I Missed in 2021...

1. The Underground Railroad (Amazon)

2. I May Destroy You (HBO)

3. Scenes From a Marriage (Netflix)

4. Maid (Netflix)

5. Master of None Presents: Moments in Love (Netflix)

6. 100 Foot Wave (HBO)

7. The Great S2 (Hulu)

8. (tie) Swagger (Apple) and Colin in Black and White (Netflix)

9. Succession S3 (HBO)

10. Brand New Cherry Flavor (Netflix)

Top 20 Most Anticipated New Scripted TV Shows of 2022 - It's shaping up to be another great year for television thanks to a plethora of exciting new and returning shows. An asterisk on either list below indicates this show was on last year's list as well.

1. Winning Time* (HBO)

2. Pam & Tommy (Hulu)

3. Monster (Netflix) 

4. Tokyo Vice* (HBO Max)

5. A League of Their Own* (Amazon)

6. Love and Death (HBO Max)

7. The Staircase (HBO Max)

8. Masters of the Air (Apple)

9. The Old Man* (FX)

10.  The Sandman* (Netflix)

11. The Dropout (Hulu)

12. The Girl From Plainville (Hulu)

13. Law & Order (NBC)

14. In With the Devil (Apple)

15. The Shining Girls (Apple)

16. Candy (Hulu)

17. Iron Mike (Hulu)

18. Outer Range (Amazon)

19. Class of '09 (FX)

20. Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max)

Top 15 Most Anticipated Returning TV Shows of 2022...

1. Barry S3* (HBO)

2. Stranger Things S4* (Netflix)

3. Euphoria S2* (HBO)

4. Ozark S4 (Netflix)

5. Ted Lasso S3 (Apple)

6. Dave S3 (FX)

7. Killing Eve S4* (Hulu)

8. Hunters S2 (Amazon)

9. Reservation Dogs S2 (FX)

10. You S4 (Netflix)

11. Hacks S2 (HBO Max)

12. The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers S2 (Disney+)

13. Only Murders in the Building S2 (Hulu)

14. Chucky S2 (Syfy)

15. (tie) Invincible S2 and The Boys S3 (Amazon)

2021 Movie List - The Top 254 of the Year

THE STANDOUTS (12) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

CODA ***1/2
Dear Mr. Brody ***1/2
The Rescue ***1/2
Flee ***1/2
Tiger ***1/2
The Worst Person in the World ***1/2
King Richard ***
After the Murder of Albert Lima ***
Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself ***
Pleasure ***
Untold: Crime & Penalties ***
Run Hide Fight ***

THE GOOD (63) - These represent quality filmmaking all-around.

Coming Home in the Dark ***

The Alpinist ***

Old Henry ***

Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible ***

Untold: Malice at the Palace ***

Shiva Baby ***

Luca ***

Stillwater ***

Red Rocket ***

Worth ***

American Skin ***
Together Together ***

Violation ***

Catch the Fair One ***

Rose Plays Julie ***

Copshop ***

The Trip ***

Joe Bell ***

In the Earth ***

Four Good Days ***

Stowaway ***

Silo ***

The Harder They Fall ***

Tick Tick... Boom! ***

Spencer ***

Ray Donovan: The Movie ***

Spider-Man: No Way Home ***

American Underdog ***

A Hero ***

Encounter ***

Dark Blood ***

Travis Roy: A Life & A Legacy ***

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain ***

Clerk. ***

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal ***

9/11: Inside the President's War Room ***

Enforcement ***

Below Zero ***

Red Dot ***

8-Bit Christmas ***

The Suicide Squad ***

Cryptozoo ***

The Mitchells vs. the Machines ***

Fear Street Part 2 - 1978 ***

Julia ***

The Marksman ***

The Mauritanian **1/2

Pig **1/2

Wild Indian **1/2

Sundown **1/2

Silent Night **1/2

Kid 90 **1/2

Woodstock 99: Peace, Love & Rage **1/2

The Unforgivable **1/2

The White Tiger **1/2

4x4 **1/2

On the Count of Three **1/2

Fear Street Part 3 - 1666 **1/2

Golden Arm **1/2

Ron's Gone Wrong **1/2

Plan B **1/2

Held **1/2

Initiation **1/2

THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (61) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence, the name of this section.

Blue Bayou ***

Val ***

Licorice Pizza ***

C'mon C'mon ***

Small Engine Repair ***

Mogul Mowgli ***

Jockey ***

House of Gucci **1/2

West Side Story **1/2

The Father **1/2

The Novice **1/2

I Care a Lot **1/2

Nightmare Alley **1/2

Slalom **1/2

Bruised **1/2

A Quiet Place Part II **1/2

The Little Things **1/2

Belfast **1/2

Being the Ricardos **1/2

The Dry **1/2

Passing **1/2

Why Did You Kill Me? **1/2

Nobody **1/2

Profile **1/2

Riders of Justice **1/2

Georgetown **1/2

Nail Bomber: Manhunt **1/2

Cruella **1/2

The Truffle Hunters **1/2

National Champions **1/2

The Tender Bar **1/2

Free Guy **1/2

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings **1/2

Swan Song **1/2

Summer of Soul **1/2

No Time to Die **1/2

Don't Look Up **1/2

Enemies of the State **1/2

The God Committee **1/2

Petite Maman **1/2

Boiling Point **1/2

Beckett **1/2

Malcolm & Marie **1/2

Antlers **1/2

Army of the Dead **1/2

Without Remorse **1/2

Breaking News in Yuba County **1/2

Above Suspicion **1/2

City of Lies **1/2

The Courier **1/2

The Boy Behind the Door **1/2

The Voyeurs **1/2

15 Minutes of Shame **1/2

Oxygen **1/2

Come True **1/2

#Like **1/2

Beanie Mania **1/2

Mentally Al **1/2

Detainee 001 **1/2

7 Days **1/2

R#J **1/2

THE GUILTY PLEASURES (20) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but I do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.

Wrong Turn ***

The Protege ***

The King's Man ***

Love Hard ***

Slaxx ***

Zack Snyder's Justice League **1/2

The Tomorrow War **1/2

Don't Breathe 2 **1/2

Queenpins **1/2

Gunpowder Milkshake **1/2

Kate **1/2

Thunder Force **1/2

Bad Trip **1/2

Yes Day **1/2

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions **1/2

Brothers by Blood **1/2

Last Call **

Sweet Girl **

V/H/S/94 **

Vacation Friends **

THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (83) - Chalk it up to expectations but these movies just didn't cut it for me.

Judas and the Black Messiah **1/2

Annette **1/2

Titane **1/2

Mass **1/2

Silk Road **1/2

Rage **1/2

Lamb **1/2

The Last Duel **1/2

No Sudden Move **1/2

Those Who Wish Me Dead **1/2

The Card Counter **

The Eyes of Tammy Faye **

The Survivor **

Black Widow **

Fear Street Part 1 - 1994 **

Saloum **

The Lost Daughter **

F9 **

Red Notice **

Dune **

The Beta Test **

No Man of God **

Pharma Bro **

Wrath of Man **

Mortal Kombat **

Godzilla vs. Kong **

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar **

Don't Tell a Soul **

Body Brokers **

The Ice Road **

The Green Knight **

Old **

Candyman **

The Tragedy of Macbeth **

Crisis **

Mother/Android **

Nine Days **

Happily **

Encanto **

The Evening Hour **

Eight for Silver **

Lakewood **

Venom: Let There Be Carnage **

Voyagers **

Cry Macho **

Ghostbusters: Afterlife **

The Many Saints of Newark **

Eternals **

Locked Down **

Werewolves Within **

The Gateway **

Midnight in the Switchgrass **

Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson **

Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes **

The Humans *1/2

The Power of the Dog *1/2

The French Dispatch *1/2

Finch *1/2

Dear Evan Hansen *1/2

Jungle Cruise *1/2

Spiral: From the Book of Saw *1/2

There's Someone Inside Your House *1/2

Infinite *1/2

Every Breath You Take *1/2

The Forever Purge *1/2

Die in a Gunfight *1/2

Karen *1/2

Moby Doc *1/2

Halloween Kills *1/2

Last Night in Soho *1/2

Dashcam *1/2

False Positive *1/2

Murder Bury Win *1/2

Funny Face *1/2

Prime Time *1/2

John and the Hole *1/2

The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain *1/2

A Glitch in the Matrix *1/2

Knocking *1/2

Honeydew *1/2

Censor *1/2
The Guilty *1/2

Gunda *

THE BAD (15) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.

Malignant *1/2

Cherry *

The Matrix Resurrections *

The Woman in the Window *

Prisoners of the Ghostland *

Space Jam: A New Legacy *

Separation *

Awake *

Mayday *

Home Sweet Home Alone *

Willy's Wonderland *

Flashback 1/2*

Demonic 1/2*

Untitled Horror Movie 1/2*

Reminiscence (zero stars)

IN PROGRESS (5) - I started watching these but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will... but not always. Sometimes, it's just a matter of viewing circumstances.

Army of Thieves (25 minutes)

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell (40 minutes)

Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed (35 minutes)

The Day Sports Stood Still (30 minutes)

Persona (30 minutes)

EMBARGOED (0) - Silence is golden... for now.

DON'T FORGET (10) - I first saw these 2021 movies a while back. This list is for me, so I don't forget them.

Dinner in America ***

The Killing of Two Lovers ***

New Order **1/2

Summertime **1/2

The Night House **1/2

Monster **1/2

The Nowhere Inn **1/2

Zola **

Boss Level **

The Vigil *1/2

OOPS, I MISSED (179): About Endlessness, The Addams Family 2, Adrienne, All Light, Everywhere, American Dream, Apex, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Bad Tales, Bastards' Road, Belle, Benedetta, Bergman Island, Best Summer Ever, Black Friday, Blast Beat, Bliss, Blithe Spirit, Boogie, The Catch, Chaos Walking, Cinderella, Citizen Ashe, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Come From Away, Coming 2 America, Concrete Cowboy, A Cop Movie, Cosmic Sin, Cowboys, Crime Story, The Croods: A New Age, Cyrano, Dating & New York, Dead Asleep, Dear Comrades!, The Deep House, The Dig, The Djinn, DMX: Don't Try to Understand, Dream Horse, Drive My Car, Drunk Bus, The Duke, Eat Wheaties!, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Ema, Escape From Mogadishu, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Falling, Fatal Distraction, Fatherhood, Fear of Rain, Flag Day, Flora & Ulysses, Framing Britney Spears, French Exit, Funhouse, Gaia, The Good House, Good on Paper, Gully, Habit, The Hand of God, Hard Luck Love Song, Heart of Champions, Here Are the Young Men, Here Today, He's All That, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Hold Your Fire, Holler, Horizon Line, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Hypnotic, Identifying Features, I'm Your Man, In the Heights, Intrusion, Jagged, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Jolt, A Journal for Jordan, Joy Ride, Jumbo, The Knot, Land, Language Lessons, Lansky, The Last Letter From Your Lover, Limbo, Little Fish, Little Girl, Lorelei, The Lost Leonardo, Malmkrog, Mama Weed, The Man Who Sold His Skin, The Medium, Memoria, Me You Madness, Milkwater, Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad, Mainstream, The Misfits, Mixtape, Miyagi, MLK/FBI, Moffie, Monday, Monster Hunter, Mothering Sunday, Moxie, Music, My Salinger Year, Night of the Kings, Night Teeth, North Hollywood, Oslo, Our Friend, The Outside Story, Outside the Wire, Palmer, Parallel Mothers, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, Percy Vs Goliath, Pixie, Port Authority, Postal, Pray Away, Prayers for the Stolen, Prey, Psycho Goreman, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Rare Beasts, Raya and the Last Dragon, The Reckoning, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Respect, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, Rushed, Saint Maud, SAS: Red Notice, The Scary of Sixty-First, Seance, The Serpent, Settlers, Sheep Without a Shepherd, Shoplifters of the World, Siberia, Sing 2, Snake Eyes, Some Kind of Heaven, Sound of Violence, South of Heaven, The Souvenir Part II, The Sparks Brothers, The Starling, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, The Summit of the Gods, Supernova, Swan Song (Udo Kier), Sweat, Sweet Thing, Swing, Test Pattern, There Is No Evil, Things Heard and Seen, This Is the Night, Together, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, The Tunnel, Undine, Vanquish, The Vault, The Virtuoso, Vivo, The Wanting Mare, The Water Man, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Whirlybird, Wolf, The World to Come

COMING SOON (0):