It’s rare for anthology films to work so well on me. And while it may be difficult to justify as great art next to any other title on my list of favorites this year, I cannot deny the stupid smile it puts on my face each time I watch it. It’s a movie I showed to friends or told them to watch (those into this sort of thing, anyway), and I wasn’t disappointed with their responses. Admittedly, I watched this movie three times in 2021, largely because it’s so damn funny and shocking and absurd. Here’s a movie that gets a laugh from exploding heads and power-crazed little girls. If you’re nostalgic about the aesthetic of bad ‘80s genre fare, you’ll appreciate its throwback production. If Troma-style gore and over-the-top dark humor is your thing, you’ll enjoy this splatterfest. The audience for Psycho Goreman is narrow. With the impermanence of best lists in mind, here is my list of the Top 10 Films of 2021, plus a couple of extras. So it always ends up feeling like a struggle to organize my favorites and, after a couple months, there’s usually a title or two that I regret not placing higher on my list. Some years have been better than others, but none of them have been bad-not when you see hundreds of movies. In my 15 years of writing on Deep Focus Review, I haven’t experienced a single bad year of moviegoing. Then again, every year is a good year for movies. Had you asked me in September what kind of movie year 2021 was, I would have said, “Average at best.” But almost every week in the fourth quarter-the last few weeks in December, in particular-introduced something special, to the extent that my Top 10 list went from a foregone conclusion to a downright challenge to compile. 2021 turned out to be stellar, largely due to the year-end influx of festival favorites and pandemic holdovers.
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