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From seasoned professionals getting their long-overdue recognition to newcomers who were plucked from obscurity through pure chance, here are 15 performers who signaled a bright horizon for cinema this year.

Join us as we count down the 15 best movie scores from 2021, which was a surprisingly good year for movie music.

If you’re still trying to process the fact that 2021 is coming to a close, you’re not alone. Watch some great TV while you think about it, with our list of the year’s best scenes.

Some of the year’s best horror movies are bloody, others are funny, and a lucky few manage to deliver both.

In this edition of Movie DNA, we look at the movies that came before Adam McKay’s satire, including silly disaster flicks and serious documentaries.

We rank the best animated movies of 2021, celebrating the usual suspects as well as some unsung gems. From Pixar to Neon, it was a wild one.

We’ve entered a new golden age of comic books, where Dracula, Ed Gein, and a land shark named Jeff compete with the very best superhero stories.

From blockbuster epics to an indie comedy from Japan, these are the best action films of the year.

From Norway to India to Romania and beyond, Luke Hicks counts down the 15 best non-English language films released in 2021.