It's here: The once-per-decade Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time has released its latest iteration, with surprises aplenty throughout the list. Though the Rough Cut team were — shockingly! — not among the critics asked to contribute their opinions to the poll, that didn't stop us from putting together our 10-film ballots anyway. Below you'll find our choices, each in chronological order. While we all used different criteria to make our selections, we all recognize…

By Carson Cook

It's that time of year again! As the Academy weighs in with their nominees, our team here at Rough Cut came together to make our picks for the best movies of 2021.

By Ben Nadeau

By Jonny Diaz

The cinema of 2021 was filled with a lot of empty formalism – as every year should be. Because to attempt true visual storytelling is to risk falling flat on one’s face. With streamers expanding and the pandemic accelerating the great elision of film and television, that there remain so many cinematic moments made to be seen on a big screen – made so that they can be felt and understood without dialogue – is a minor miracle in itself…

By Carson Cook

By Jonny Diaz

For me, the year in movies was defined primarily by one thing: the fact that for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, theater-going once again felt (depending on one’s own risk and comfort level) like a regular part of the movie-watching routine. Just as Nicole Kidman points out in her relentless AMC advertisements, the movie theater feels like home to me — somewhere I go to cry, to laugh, to be thrilled, and to relieve stress…