Great acting was everywhere in 2021. While we received the usual assortment of great performances in festival standouts and end-of-year awards contenders, we also found inspired performances in big-budget multiplex movies and no-budget horror.

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We cast a wide net for our list of the Best Film Performances of 2021. Every list has its omissions – no doubt some of your favorite roles just missed appearing on here – but if you wanted to see the full range of modern cinematic acting, you could do a lot worse than starting with the actors we’ve assembled.

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You could make an argument that the psychological thriller genre has grown a bit stale over the years. What used to be an interesting place to showcase character studies about truly disturbing people has turned into fairly basic procedurals with very few surprises. Well, you don’t have to worry about that with the new psychological thriller/horror film, “Censor.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Censor,” the new film from director Prano Bailey-Bond is a psychological thriller that gets under your skin by not playing by conventional filmmaking rules.

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