Our 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2021
January 8, 2021
After highlighting 40 films we can guarantee are worth seeing this year and films we hope will get U.S. distribution, it’s time we venture into the unknown. Due to all the pandemic-related delays, our most-anticipated list this year may ring familiar to those who follow our coverage, but there’s still plenty of currently under-the-radar movies that will hopefully make a mark in 2021.
While the majority might not have a set release–let alone any confirmed festival premiere–most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2021, so make sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months and beyond.
There’s a beautiful symmetry in the fact that TG4, a channel many thought would never succeed when it was launched as Teilifís na Gaeilge in 1996 (Kevin Myers christened it Teilifís De Lorean), is showing Fargo, a series many, including me, believed was destined to fail.
The thinking before the first season aired in 2014 was that writer-director Noah Hawley’s plan to make a series based on the Coen brothers’ fabulous black comedy crime drama was madness.
A previous attempt in the 1990s – a straightforward follow-up to the film, featuring Edie Falco as Marge Gunderson – never got past a one-hour pilot, which can be found on YouTube.